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Giants in the Medieval City
, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 272 pages, Size:225 x 280 mm, Illustrations:110 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503607689.
Summary The visual landscape north of the Alps between the 14th and 16th centuries was shaped by colossal representations of epic and mythological giants, reincarnated and cast as Christian heroes. In contexts religious or lay, private or public, giants dominated urban spaces but also rural ones. They were painted on church facades and stood tall as sculptures in town squares. Rather than portraying specific characters from particular texts, the figures embodied the notion of ?the gigantic? as it appeared in contemporary writings: superhuman creatures from foreign lands and liminal geographies, often associated with supernatural powers, magic, hypermasculinity, and, concomitantly, matriarchy. Since the naming and identity of these giants do not always correlate--thus destabilizing the images' semiotics--the gap could be filled by fabricated memories of the ancient world. Hence, imagery of giants bridged mythological, biblical, and contemporary times, while producing novel political metaphors. This book explores the role and function of the vision and the experience of the gigantic. Executed ?out of scale? and communicating ideas about excess, giants were experienced as physically and ethically abject and, at the same time, as magnificent, apotropaic, and redemptive; as such they came to embody the very notion of the medieval sublime. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Toward a Global Genealogy of Giants Assaf Pinkus Chapter 1: Being a Giant: Geographies and Temporalities Assaf Pinkus Chapter 2: Out of Scale: Experiencing the Gigantic Assaf Pinkus Chapter 3: A Giant in the City: The Protective Roland Assaf Pinkus and Noeit Williger Aviam Chapter 4: Chaos and Order in the Cities: Roland and his Companions Orly Amit Chapter 5: Giants of London Michal Ozeri Chapter 6: The Gigantic as the Late Medieval Sublime: St. Christopher in the Alps Epilogue: More Good then Evil Notes - Bibliography - Index
How Do Images Work? Strategies of Visual Communication in Medieval Art
, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, iv + 244 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:31 b/w, 140 col., Language(s):English, German, Italian. ISBN 9782503595870.
Summary How did historical images work and interact with their beholders and users? Drawing on the results of an international conference held in Vienna in 2018, this volume offers new perspectives on a central question for contemporary art history. The fourteen authors approach working imagery from the medieval and early modern periods in terms of its production, usage, and reception. They address wide-ranging media?architecture, sculpture, painting, metalwork, stained glass?in similarly wide-ranging contexts: from monumental installations in the most public zones of urban churches to exquisite devotional objects and illuminated books reserved for more exclusive settings. While including research from West European and American institutions, the project also engages with the distinctive scholarly traditions of Eastern Europe and Israel. In all these ways, it reflects the interests of the dedicatee Michael Viktor Schwarz, whose introductory interview lays out the parameters of the subject. TABLE OF CONTENTS How Do Images Work? An Interview with Michael Viktor Schwarz Editors' Introduction PART I: VISUAL ELOQUENCE Can We Grasp Wordless Images? ? Milena Bartlov Gothic Art, Realism and magniloquentia: Thoughts on Erich Auerbach ? Paul Binski The Scaling Turn: Experiencing Late Medieval Artifacts? Assaf Pinkus and Einat Klafter ?Where the Wild Things Are?. Die Wilden Leute des sp ten Mittelalters und der fr hen Neuzeit im Raum des Dekorativen ? Hans K rner Das Kultbild und sein Rahmen: Zur Funktion von Stildifferenzen (zwei schlesische Beispiele aus dem Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts) ? Romuald Kaczmarek PART II: IMAGERY IN BOOKS In cerchio: Illuminating the Trojan Legend and the Commedia between the Veneto and Naples (with some conjectures on Madrid, BNE, MS 10057) ? Rosa M. Rodr guez Porto Wie die Bilder im Roman d'Alexandre en prose die dubiose Herkunft des Helden diskutieren ? Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch Bonaventure and Monastic Images of St Elizabeth ? Ivan Ger t PART III: IMAGERY IN SPACE In Praise of the Pigeon: Interpretive Adventures in Naumburg Cathedral ? Jacqueline E. Jung Bilder und Kult als Ausdruck bisch flicher Macht: Berthold von Buchegg und die Katharinenkapelle im Stra burger M nster? Marc Carel Schurr Eye of the Donkey: Visual Strategies on the Choir Threshold of St Laurence's in Nuremberg ? Tim Juckes Bildkonzepte im Widerstreit. Donatellos Judith als ?naturalisierte Allegorie?? Ulrich Pfisterer Inhaltliche Vielfalt durch motivische Zur ckhaltung. Zur Wandmalerei in der camera pape im Papstpalast von Avignon ? Tanja Hinterholz Storia, mito e allegoria: I portali del Santo Sepolcro a Brindisi ? Valentino Pace
