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Typology, Elizabeth Teviotdale
Review Of The Exhibition 799: Kunst Und Kultur Der Karolingerzeit, Melanie Holcomb, Elizabeth Teviotdale
Review Of The Exhibition 799: Kunst Und Kultur Der Karolingerzeit, Melanie Holcomb, Elizabeth Teviotdale
Elizabeth C Teviotdale
A review of the exhibition mounted at three venues in Paderborn in 1999, contrasting it with the exhibition Karl der Grosse, mounted in 1965 in Aachen, and assessing the integration of objects traditionally regarded as artifacts with those considered to be high art.
Latin Verse Inscriptions In Anglo-Saxon Art, Elizabeth Teviotdale
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 …