Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 609 pages)
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ISBN:
9781139583459
Content:
In this book, Conrad Rudolph studies and reconstructs Hugh of Saint Victor's forty-two-page written work, The Mystic Ark, which describes the medieval painting of the same name. In medieval written sources, works of art are not often referred to, let alone described in any detail. Almost completely ignored by art historians because of the immense difficulty of its text, Hugh of Saint Victor's Mystic Ark (c.1125–30) is among the most unusual sources we have for an understanding of medieval artistic culture. Depicting all time, all space, all matter, all human history and all spiritual striving, this highly polemical painting deals with a series of cultural issues crucial in the education of society's elite during one of the great periods of intellectual change in Western history
Content:
1. The Mystic Ark lectures -- 2. The image of The Mystic Ark -- 3. Conclusion: the Mystic Ark and the multiplication and systematization of imagery -- Appendix: translation of the Mystic Ark, with art historical commentary
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107037052
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107037052
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hugo von Sankt Victor 1096-1141 Libellus de formatione arche
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139583459
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