Saturday, July 19, 2014
Move to AVISTA
In the future, Archivolt content will be published as news at www.avista.org, the website of the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
New Review
Michael T. Davis, "Robert Bork, The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011)," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 73 (1) 2014, 169-171.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Florence Cathedral Complex to Undergo Cleaning
Time for some exterior grime removal.
http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/a-facelift-will-brighten-up-florences-piazza-del-duomo-7724
http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/a-facelift-will-brighten-up-florences-piazza-del-duomo-7724
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Recent Books
Ashgate:
Glaire D. Anderson, The Islamic Villa in Early Modern Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba (August 2013)
Meredith Cohen and Fanny Madeline, eds., Space in the Medieval West: Places, Territories, and Imagined Geographies (June 2014)
Martin Bressani, Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, 1814-1879 (April 2014)
Paul Davies, Deborah Howard, and Wendy Pullan, eds., Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500 (October 2013)
Denys Pringle, Churches, Castles, and Landscapes in the Frankish East (January 2013)
Brepols:
Massimiliano David, Eternal Ravenna: From the Etruscans to the Venetians (September 2013)
Reichart Verlag:
Mark J. Johnson, The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia (April 2013)
Ege Yayinlari:
Halil Inalcik, The Survey of Istabul 1455 (December 2012)
Glaire D. Anderson, The Islamic Villa in Early Modern Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba (August 2013)
Meredith Cohen and Fanny Madeline, eds., Space in the Medieval West: Places, Territories, and Imagined Geographies (June 2014)
Martin Bressani, Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, 1814-1879 (April 2014)
Paul Davies, Deborah Howard, and Wendy Pullan, eds., Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500 (October 2013)
Denys Pringle, Churches, Castles, and Landscapes in the Frankish East (January 2013)
Brepols:
Massimiliano David, Eternal Ravenna: From the Etruscans to the Venetians (September 2013)
Reichart Verlag:
Mark J. Johnson, The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia (April 2013)
Ege Yayinlari:
Halil Inalcik, The Survey of Istabul 1455 (December 2012)
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
New Reviews
Speculum 89 (1)
Luca Zavagno, Review of James Scott Petre, Crusader Castles of Cyprus: The Fortifications of Cyprus under the Lusignans, 1191-1489 (Nocosia: Kentro Epistēmonikōn Ereunōn, 2012): 228-230.
Christine B.Verzar, Review of Max Seidel, Father and Son: Nicola and Giovanni Pisano (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2012): 245-247.
Luca Zavagno, Review of James Scott Petre, Crusader Castles of Cyprus: The Fortifications of Cyprus under the Lusignans, 1191-1489 (Nocosia: Kentro Epistēmonikōn Ereunōn, 2012): 228-230.
Christine B.Verzar, Review of Max Seidel, Father and Son: Nicola and Giovanni Pisano (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2012): 245-247.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
New article on Gothic
Tallon, Andrew. "An Architecture of Perfection." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 72 (4): 530-554.
New Reviews
Speculum 88 (4)
Eric Fernie, review of Rodwell, Warwick, The Archaeology of Churches (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2012), 1151-1152.
William Chester Jordan, review of Rowe, Nina, The Jew, the Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 1154-1156.
Charles T. Little, review of Stratford, Neil, Brigitte Maurice-Chabal, David Walsh, et.al., Corpus de la sculpture de Cluny, 1: Les parties orientales de la grande église Cluny III (Paris: Picard, 2010), 1172-1173.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 72 (4)
Jeffrey A.K. Miller, review of Richard Fawcett, The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100-1560 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 584-587.
Matthew Johnson, review of Goodall, John, The English Castle, 1066-1650 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 587-588.
Eric Fernie, review of Rodwell, Warwick, The Archaeology of Churches (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2012), 1151-1152.
William Chester Jordan, review of Rowe, Nina, The Jew, the Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 1154-1156.
Charles T. Little, review of Stratford, Neil, Brigitte Maurice-Chabal, David Walsh, et.al., Corpus de la sculpture de Cluny, 1: Les parties orientales de la grande église Cluny III (Paris: Picard, 2010), 1172-1173.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 72 (4)
Jeffrey A.K. Miller, review of Richard Fawcett, The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100-1560 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 584-587.
Matthew Johnson, review of Goodall, John, The English Castle, 1066-1650 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 587-588.
Monday, October 28, 2013
New Review
Virginia Raguin, review of Jung, Jacqueline E., The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and
Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca.1200-1400
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
The Medieval Review
TMR 13.10.26
Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca.1200-1400
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
The Medieval Review
TMR 13.10.26
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Latest Issue of Speculum
The most recent edition of Speculum includes an article and several book reviews of interest to architectural historians:
Sharon Farmer, "Aristocratic Power and the 'Natural' Landscape: The Garden Park at Hesdin, ca. 1291-1302," 644-680.
Megan Cassidy-Welsh, review of Mick Aston, Monasteries in the Landscape (Rev. ed. Stroud, UK: Amberley, 2009), 753-754.
William Tronzo, review of Marie Tanner, Jerusalem on the Hill: Rome and the Vision of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Renaissance (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 60) (London: Harvey Miller; Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), 856-857.
Sharon Farmer, "Aristocratic Power and the 'Natural' Landscape: The Garden Park at Hesdin, ca. 1291-1302," 644-680.
Megan Cassidy-Welsh, review of Mick Aston, Monasteries in the Landscape (Rev. ed. Stroud, UK: Amberley, 2009), 753-754.
William Tronzo, review of Marie Tanner, Jerusalem on the Hill: Rome and the Vision of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Renaissance (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 60) (London: Harvey Miller; Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), 856-857.
Monday, September 9, 2013
New Review
The Art Bulletin 95 (3) 2013
Jacqueline Jung, review of Herbert Kessler and David Nirenberg, eds., Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from Catacombs to Colonialism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) and Nina Rowe, The Jew, the Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 488-493.
Jacqueline Jung, review of Herbert Kessler and David Nirenberg, eds., Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from Catacombs to Colonialism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) and Nina Rowe, The Jew, the Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 488-493.
Saturday, August 24, 2013
New Review
Speculum 88 (2)
Julian Gardner, review of Francesco Benelli, The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012): 491-492.
Julian Gardner, review of Francesco Benelli, The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012): 491-492.
Saturday, June 22, 2013
New Reviews
Speculum 88 (1)
Paul Arthur, review of Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo, Medieval Naples: An Architectural and Urban History, 400-1400 (New York: Italica Press, 2011): 265-266.
Oliver Creighton, review of Anne-Marie Flambard Héricher, Scribla: la fin d'un château d'origine normande en Calabre. Collection de l'École francaise de Rome 421 (Rome: École française de Rome, 2010): 291-292
Kelly M. Wickham-Crowley, review of Lori Ann Garner, Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011): 292-294.
Colum Hourihane, review of Ethan Matt Kavaler, Renaissance Gothic: The Authority of Ornament, 1470-1540 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012): 316-318.
Rachel Dressler, review of Janet Snyder, Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France: Appearance, Materials, and Significance (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011): 340-341.
Colin Breen, Dunlace Castle: History and Archaeology (Dublin, Four Courts Press: 2012): 369. (short notice)
Friday, June 14, 2013
New Review
Fredric Cheyette, review of Flambard-Héricher, Anne Marie, and Jacques Le Maho, eds. Château, ville et pouvoir au Moyen Âge. Series: Tables rondes du CRAHM, 7. Caen: Publications du CRAHM.
The Medieval Review 13.06.17
The Medieval Review 13.06.17
Monday, March 25, 2013
New Review
The Medieval Review
Gallet, Yves, ed. Ex Quadris Lapidibus: La pierre et sa mise en oeuvre dans l'art medievale. Series: Mélanges en histoire de l'art offerts à Eliane Vergnolle (Brepols: 2011). Reviewed by Stephen Murray.
TMR 13.03.16
Gallet, Yves, ed. Ex Quadris Lapidibus: La pierre et sa mise en oeuvre dans l'art medievale. Series: Mélanges en histoire de l'art offerts à Eliane Vergnolle (Brepols: 2011). Reviewed by Stephen Murray.
TMR 13.03.16
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
New Reviews
Speculum has a number of architecture or architecture-related books reviewed in the latest issue (vol. 87, no. 4):
Slobodan Ćurčić, Architecture in the Balkans: from Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent (Mew Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Vasileios Marinis. 1178-1179.
Deborah Mouskopf Deliyannis, Ravenna in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Andrew Gillett. 1182-1183.
Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Great Britain, Summary Catalogue 9) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Virginia Raguin. 1210-1212.
Pierre-Yves Laffont, Chateaux du Vivarais: Pouvoirs et peuplement en France méridionale du Haut Moyen Âge au XIIe siècle (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009). Reviewed by Melena Hope.
Olson, Vibeke, ed., Working with Limestone: The Science, Technology, and Art of Medieval Limestone Monuments (AVISTA studies in the History of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art 7) (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011). Reviewed by Michael T. Davis. 1235-1237.
Stalley, Roger, ed. Limerick and South-West Ireland: Medieval Art and Architecture (British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 34) (Leeds: Maney, 2011). Reviewed by Peter Fergusson. 1255-1256.
Slobodan Ćurčić, Architecture in the Balkans: from Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent (Mew Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Vasileios Marinis. 1178-1179.
Deborah Mouskopf Deliyannis, Ravenna in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Andrew Gillett. 1182-1183.
Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Great Britain, Summary Catalogue 9) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Reviewed by Virginia Raguin. 1210-1212.
Pierre-Yves Laffont, Chateaux du Vivarais: Pouvoirs et peuplement en France méridionale du Haut Moyen Âge au XIIe siècle (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009). Reviewed by Melena Hope.
Olson, Vibeke, ed., Working with Limestone: The Science, Technology, and Art of Medieval Limestone Monuments (AVISTA studies in the History of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art 7) (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011). Reviewed by Michael T. Davis. 1235-1237.
Stalley, Roger, ed. Limerick and South-West Ireland: Medieval Art and Architecture (British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 34) (Leeds: Maney, 2011). Reviewed by Peter Fergusson. 1255-1256.
Friday, November 16, 2012
New Review
Donald Leech, review of
Monckton, Linda, and Richard Morris, eds., Coventry: Medieval Art,
Architecture, and Archaeology in the City and its Vicinity. Series: The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XXXIII (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2011)
Architecture, and Archaeology in the City and its Vicinity. Series: The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XXXIII (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2011)
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
New Reviews
Speculum 87 (3)
Anthony Quiney, review of Malcom Airs and P.S. Barnwell, eds., The Medieval Great House (Rewley House Studies in the Historic Environment 1) (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2011), 828-830.
Mailan S. Doquang, review of Robert Bork, The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 842-844.
Theodore Evergates, review of François Verdier, Saint-Ayoul de Provins: Un prieuré au temps des foires de Champagne (Langres: Dominique Guéniot, 2009), 933-934.
Brief notice of Pina Belli D'Elia and Emilia Pellegrino, eds., Le radici della cattedrale: Lo studio ed il restauro del succorpo nel contesto della fabbrica della Cattedrale di Bari, 940-941.
Anthony Quiney, review of Malcom Airs and P.S. Barnwell, eds., The Medieval Great House (Rewley House Studies in the Historic Environment 1) (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2011), 828-830.
Mailan S. Doquang, review of Robert Bork, The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 842-844.
Theodore Evergates, review of François Verdier, Saint-Ayoul de Provins: Un prieuré au temps des foires de Champagne (Langres: Dominique Guéniot, 2009), 933-934.
Brief notice of Pina Belli D'Elia and Emilia Pellegrino, eds., Le radici della cattedrale: Lo studio ed il restauro del succorpo nel contesto della fabbrica della Cattedrale di Bari, 940-941.
Friday, October 5, 2012
New Review
Meredith Parsons Lillich, review of Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Stained Glass in The Netherlands before 1795: Part I - The North and Part II - The South (Corpus Vitrearum The Netherlands, IV) 2 vols (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011).
Thursday, August 9, 2012
New edition of Gesta
Gesta 50 (2) has two articles with an architectural focus, and both take on iconic buildings: Bissera Pentcheva's "Hagia Sophia and Multisensory Aesthetics," 93-112, and Mailan Doquang's "The Lateral Chapels of Notre-Dame in Context," 137-162.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
New Reviews
Speculum 87 (2)
Mary E. Wolinski, review of Margot Fassler, The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), 547-548
Gerald B. Guest, review of Elizabeth C. Pastan and Sylvie Balcon, Les vitraux de choeur dela cathédrale de Troyes (XIIIe siècle) (Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2006), 594-595
David K. Pettegrew, review of Luca Zavagno, Cities in Transition: Urbanism in Byzantium between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (AD 500-900) (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009), 628-630.
Mary E. Wolinski, review of Margot Fassler, The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), 547-548
Gerald B. Guest, review of Elizabeth C. Pastan and Sylvie Balcon, Les vitraux de choeur dela cathédrale de Troyes (XIIIe siècle) (Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2006), 594-595
David K. Pettegrew, review of Luca Zavagno, Cities in Transition: Urbanism in Byzantium between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (AD 500-900) (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009), 628-630.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
