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Silenced Sacred Spaces: Selected Photographs Of Syrian Synagogues By Robert Lyons, Exhibition Essay, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Samuel D. Gruber Dr. Sep 1996

Silenced Sacred Spaces: Selected Photographs Of Syrian Synagogues By Robert Lyons, Exhibition Essay, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

No abstract provided.


From Choir Book To Scrap Book: The Initials In Hmml Bean Ms 3, Elizabeth Teviotdale Jun 1996

From Choir Book To Scrap Book: The Initials In Hmml Bean Ms 3, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

A consideration of the origin of a group of cuttings contained in a 19th-century album (Collegeville, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Bean MS 3), with an analysis is the relationship of the initials' figural subjects to the texts they introduced. The cuttings, a series of historiated and decorated initials, were taken from one of a pair of choir books made in northern France or Flanders for a house of Cistercian nuns in the 13th century.


Penises In The Book Of Kells: A Study In Gendered Text-Image Relationships, Pamela Warner Apr 1996

Penises In The Book Of Kells: A Study In Gendered Text-Image Relationships, Pamela Warner

Pamela J. Warner

No abstract provided.


The Seven Deadly Sins Of Hieronymus Bosch, Sally A. Struthers Ph.D. Apr 1996

The Seven Deadly Sins Of Hieronymus Bosch, Sally A. Struthers Ph.D.

Sally A. Struthers, Ph.D.

Some have tried to explain the iconography of Bosch’s works through alchemy, astrology, medicine and the Adamites. Bosch’s work is rich, and seems to come from a number of sources, but he always drew from traditional Christian themes. The sinfulness of mankind is a major theme in Bosch’s oeuvre, and is bound up with the late Medieval theme of the punishments of the damned at the Last Judgment. The theme of the seven deadly sins pervades every surviving painting by Hieronymus Bosch.


Approaches To Understanding Oriental Carpets, Carol Bier Feb 1996

Approaches To Understanding Oriental Carpets, Carol Bier

Carol Bier

No abstract provided.


Legacy Of Collector George Hewitt Myers, Carol Bier Feb 1996

Legacy Of Collector George Hewitt Myers, Carol Bier

Carol Bier

No abstract provided.


Shirley Moskowitz At Seventy-Five, Samuel D. Gruber Dr. Jan 1996

Shirley Moskowitz At Seventy-Five, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

Essay about the life and art of Shirley Moskowitz for catalog of retrospective exhibit.


Preservation Priorities: Endangered Historic Jewish Sites. World Monuments Fund (New York, 1996), Samuel D. Gruber Dr. Jan 1996

Preservation Priorities: Endangered Historic Jewish Sites. World Monuments Fund (New York, 1996), Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

A booklet published by WMF containing information and photos of selected Jewish sites worldwide chosen by the author and the Jewish Heritage Council as priorities for preservation. A decade later all but one of these projects (Slonim) was complete.


750 Years In The Life Of A Pair Of Cistercian Antiphonals, Elizabeth Teviotdale Dec 1995

750 Years In The Life Of A Pair Of Cistercian Antiphonals, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

Examines the provenance and dissemination of a multivolume antiphonary produced for the Cistercian nunnery near Cambrai. The MS is presently dispersed through several collections. In 1983 the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, purchased from the German art collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig 19 leaves and four cuttings from the MS (MS Ludwig VI 5). In 1992, the Museum acquired an additional 81 leaves (MS 44). One leaf is kept at the Cleveland Museum of Art (inv. no. 85.83), and cuttings are at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (B 1730-32) and in a private collection in Collegeville, Minnesota (Hill Monastic Manuscript …


Latin Verse Inscriptions In Anglo-Saxon Art, Elizabeth Teviotdale Dec 1995

Latin Verse Inscriptions In Anglo-Saxon Art, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

This article identifies the corpus of surviving Anglo-Saxon works of art with newly composed Latin verse inscriptions: 19 paintings and drawings in seven manuscripts, one carved stone, and one engraved portable altar. A significant flourishing of the practice of including verse in works of art is associated with the Benedictine monastic reform movement of the mid-10th century. The nature of the relationship, both denotative and spatial, between the inscriptions and the images they accompany is explored through the examination of selected representative examples. It is proposed that the Anglo-Saxons understood this poetry to be an essentially written and visual art …


The Mosque: History, Architectural Development & Regional Diversity, Ed. By Martin Frishman And Hasan-Uddin Khan (Review), Roberta Dougherty Dec 1995

The Mosque: History, Architectural Development & Regional Diversity, Ed. By Martin Frishman And Hasan-Uddin Khan (Review), Roberta Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

Readers who are already familiar with mosque architecture in Central Asia, Iran, or the Arab homelands are sure to learn something new from this book. Those wishing a detailed comparative presentation of the regional differences in mosque architecture--from the rammed-earth mosques of West Africa with their striking vertical buttresses perhaps deriving from pagan African ancestral pillars, to the well-known stalactite muqarnas of Andalusian, North African, and Levantine mosques, to the pagoda-like roofs and manicured gardens of mosques in China, to the Hindu-inspired centralized vertical thrust of Southeast Asian mosques--will find this title a useful resource.