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    Reading medieval images : the art historian and the object / edited by Elizabeth Sears and Thelma K. Thomas.

    • Title:Reading medieval images : the art historian and the object / edited by Elizabeth Sears and Thelma K. Thomas.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Sears, Elizabeth, 1952-
      Thomas, Thelma K.
      Forsyth, Ilene H.
    • Published/Created:Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, ©2002.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Art, Medieval.
      Symbolism in art.
    • Description:xvii, 256 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.
    • Notes:Dedicated to mediavalist Ilene Forsyth.
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252).
    • ISBN:0472097512 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0472067516 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Dedication: Ilene H. Forsyth / Elizabeth Sears
      "Reading" Images / Elizabeth Sears
      Understanding Objects / Thelma K. Thomas
      Medieval Sign Theory
      Apse Mosaic of Santa Maria in Trastevere / Dale Kinney
      Exemplum of Humility: The Crucifixion Image in the Drogo Sacramentary / Celia Chazelle
      Visual Rhetoric
      Medium Matters: Reading the Remains of a Late Antique Textile / Thelma K. Thomas
      "Portrait" of Muhammad in the Toledan Collection / Walter B. Cahn
      Portraits in Counterpoint: Jerome and Jeremiah in an Augsburg Manuscript / Elizabeth Sears
      "Seeing and Lecturing": Disputation in a Twelfth-Century Tympanum from Reims / Michael Camille
      Geometry and Architectural Design
      Late Gothic Architectural Drawing at The Cloisters / Linda Neagley
      Audience
      Canonical Views: The Theophilus Story and the Choir Reliefs at Notre-Dame, Paris / Michael T. Davis
      About a Bronze Bird / Oleg Grabar
      Style and Ideology
      Image of the "Jugglers" in the Beatus of Silos / O. K. Werckmeister
      Pictorial Conventions
      "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened": A Lintel from San Cassiano a Settimo / Dorothy F. Glass
      Alcaudete Sarcophagus / Lois Drewer
      Narrative
      Eve's Reach: A Note on Dramatic Elements in the Hildesheim Doors / Harvey Stahl
      Gift of the Cross in the New Minster Liber Vitae / Elizabeth C. Parker
      Valerie's Gift: A Narrative Enamel Chasse from Limoges / Cynthia Hahn
      Road to Glory: New Early Images of Thomas Becket's Life / Charles T. Little
      Sacred Images
      "Virgin Veiled by God": The Presentation of an Icon on Cyprus / Annemarie Weyl Carr
      Mimesis
      Stoning of St. Stephen in an Altarpiece by Mariotto di Nardo: Again the Cast Shadow / Marvin Eisenberg.
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