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Faces of Power and Piety (The Medieval Imagination) | 
 enlarge | Author: Erik Inglis
Publisher: Getty Publications
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 921472
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 96
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 7.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0892369302
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.670940902
EAN: 9780892369300
ASIN: 0892369302
Publication Date: September 8, 2008
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Product Description
Faces of Power and Piety is the second in the Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books that draw on manuscript illuminations in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme to provide an accessible and delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world. br The vivid and charming faces featured in this volume include portraits of both illustrious historical figures and celebrated contemporaries. They reveal that medieval artists often disregarded physical appearance in favor of emphasizing qualities such as power and piety, capturing how their subjects wished to be remembered for the ages. Faces of Power and Piety also looks at the development of portraiture in the modern sense during the Renaissance, when likeness became an important component of portrait painting. An exhibition of the same name will be on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from August 12 through October 26, 2008.
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very impressive! October 13, 2008
John Harwood (New York, NY USA)
Erik Inglis is a scholar of the first rate. This book is accessible to anyone with even a passing interest in medieval manuscripts; but more importantly, it is *rewarding* to anyone with an interest in art history in general. Inglis is a gifted teacher, and this comes through in each line of the writing; he knows how to communicate the importance of the material, even to an audience that may not know the finer points of medieval politics, illumination techniques, etc. If you have even a passing interest in this material, the sumptuous reproductions and scholarly acumen exhibited here should be more than enough to purchase this book.
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