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Decorating the Lord's Table: On the Dynamics Between Image & Altar in the Middle Ages


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As the locus of the Christian ritual, the altar has often been the object of artistic attention. Decorating the Lords Table treats the profusion of sumptuously ornate altars produced in various media during the European Middle Ages. Many of the altars display images of Christ, the saints, and Biblical personages, often in conjunction with narrative cycles depicting the lives of Christ and various saints. Investigating interrelationships between image and altar in the light of important recent methodological developments in the field of art history, the essays in this book treat themes such as the human body, materiality, pictorial narrative, and liturgy, and focus on evidence from Italian, German, and Scandinavian contexts.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; Art and Liturgy in the Oratory of Pope John VII; Cross Altar and Crucifix in Ottonian Cologne; The Golden Altar of Sant' Ambrogio in Milan; Narrative 'Modes' in the Danish Golden Frontals; Body and Space in the Olst Frontal; The Stadil Altar Frontal.

About the Author :
Erik Thuno is assistant director of the Danish Academy in Rome. Soren Kaspersen is associate professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Review :
"The commitment to employing recent methodological developments to better understand the interaction between biblical past, artistic representation, and liturgical performance presents a laudably coherent work [...] The essays in this collection weave beautiful, rich, and largely convicing interpretations of medieval altar imagery [...] Decorating the Lord's Table provides an interesting and multilayered look at the aesthetic side of liturgy and theology in the Middle Ages. The breadth of the essay is one of the work's great strenghts, while the methodological concerns that tie the diverse studies together shed new light on our understanding of medieval altars." -Dana Polanichka, Comitatus - A Journal of Medieval and Rennaissance Studies, vol. 38, 2007


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788763501330
  • Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Museum Tusculanum Press
  • Height: 160 mm
  • No of Pages: 170
  • Sub Title: On the Dynamics Between Image & Altar in the Middle Ages
  • Width: 240 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8763501333
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 536 gr


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