Thursday, October 29, 2009
V&A Gallery Renovation Nearing Completion
After an extended closure for renovation, the Medieval and Renaissance galleries at the V&A are set to reopen December 2nd.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
New Views of King's College Chapel
King's College Chapel is the subject of a new photography exhibition and book by Tony Eva. The show celebrates the chapel's 500th anniversary.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
New Medieval Images on ARTstor
Bryn Mawr has provided ARTstor with thousands of images from its holdings in the fields of medieval architecture and archaeology. News courtesy of The Red Dot - a great source for news on online image collections.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Virtual Tours
Arounder.com offers a growing selection of 360° views of famous buildings, including medieval sites in Paris, Florence, Cologne, Rome...These views are also accessible through Google Maps.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Glass Analysis at Cologne
Euronews has posted a report on CONSTGLASS, an EC project analyzing methods of stained glass conservation at Cologne Cathedral and elsewhere:
http://www.euronews.net/2009/09/23/a-faded-past-but-a-bright-future-for-stained-glass/
CONSTGLASS website
http://www.euronews.net/2009/09/23/a-faded-past-but-a-bright-future-for-stained-glass/
CONSTGLASS website
Labels:
conservation,
stained glass
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Music at Royaumont
Royaumont Abbey is currently hosting Lebanese composer Kad Moultaka and others:
Article on Radio France Internationale
Article on Radio France Internationale
New Books
New and recent:
Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan, Being a Pilgrim: Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes to Santiago (Lund Humphries/Ashgate)
Maryanne Kowaleski and P.J.P. Goldberg, eds. Medieval Domesticity:
Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England (Cambridge University Press)
Simone Roux, Paris in the Middle Ages (translation of Paris au moyen âge) (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Coming soon in paperback:
Conrad Rudolph, ed., A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe (Blackwell)
New Reviews:
Speculum 84 (4)
Thomas Coomans and Harry van Royan, eds., Medieval Brick Architecture in Flanders and Northern Europe: The Question of the Cistercian Origin 1129
Patrick Demouy, Genèse d'une cathédrale: Les archevêques de Reims et leur eglise aux XIe et XIIe siècles 1035-7
Robert Maxwell, The Art of Medieval Urbanism: Parthenay in Romanesque Aquitaine 1084-5
Matthew Reeve, Thirteenth-Century Wall Painting of Salisbury Cathedral: Art, Liturgy, and Reform 1102-1104
Meyer Scapiro, Romanesque Architectural Sculpture (the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) 1106-1108
Art Bulletin 91 (3)
Robert Maxwell, The Art of Medieval Urbanism: Parthenay in Romanesque Aquitaine 366-369
Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan, Being a Pilgrim: Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes to Santiago (Lund Humphries/Ashgate)
Maryanne Kowaleski and P.J.P. Goldberg, eds. Medieval Domesticity:
Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England (Cambridge University Press)
Simone Roux, Paris in the Middle Ages (translation of Paris au moyen âge) (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Coming soon in paperback:
Conrad Rudolph, ed., A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe (Blackwell)
New Reviews:
Speculum 84 (4)
Thomas Coomans and Harry van Royan, eds., Medieval Brick Architecture in Flanders and Northern Europe: The Question of the Cistercian Origin 1129
Patrick Demouy, Genèse d'une cathédrale: Les archevêques de Reims et leur eglise aux XIe et XIIe siècles 1035-7
Robert Maxwell, The Art of Medieval Urbanism: Parthenay in Romanesque Aquitaine 1084-5
Matthew Reeve, Thirteenth-Century Wall Painting of Salisbury Cathedral: Art, Liturgy, and Reform 1102-1104
Meyer Scapiro, Romanesque Architectural Sculpture (the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) 1106-1108
Art Bulletin 91 (3)
Robert Maxwell, The Art of Medieval Urbanism: Parthenay in Romanesque Aquitaine 366-369
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