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The allegory of the Church : romanesque portals and their verse inscriptions /
The Allegory of the church is the first full-length study of Romanesque verse inscriptions in the context of church portals and portal sculpture, and is the product of a twenty-year study. Calvin B. Kendall demonstrates how these inscriptions served to express the role of the church building as a co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Allegory of the church is the first full-length study of Romanesque verse inscriptions in the context of church portals and portal sculpture, and is the product of a twenty-year study. Calvin B. Kendall demonstrates how these inscriptions served to express the role of the church building as a concrete allegory of Christ and the Church. Describing them in detail, he traces the history and nature of the changes in allegorical interpretation of the inscriptions until, as medieval assumptions about language and rhetoric changed, they were finally abandoned by Gothic artists. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 401 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-378) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442680487 1442680482 |