The decorated style : architecture and ornament, 1240-1360 / Nicola Coldstream
1994, 1st edition. London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by the British Museum Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425377
ISBN: 0714117234
Physical description; 208 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, genealogical tables, portraits ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Prologue: The Decorated Style -- Ch. 1. Illuminated Architecture. Antecedents. Westminster Abbey. Continuity and response. Decoration and ornament. Imagery and illusionism -- Ch. 2. Kingdom, Land and People -- Ch. 3. Mind and Spirit. The new buildings. Relics, shrines and tombs. The cult of the Virgin. The Resurrection and the Passion. Image and reality. Naturalism and signs. Heraldry and colour. Chivalry -- Ch. 4. The Patrons. Royal patrons. Church and laity. The Church: the bishops; the lesser clergy. The laity: the higher nobility; the lesser nobility, knights and gentry; the urban patriciate -- Ch. 5. Craftsmen and Administrators. The architects. The building administrator. Collaboration. Stylistic exchange. Subjects; Church architecture Great Britain. Architecture, Gothic Great Britain.
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