This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The chrismon, the symbol based on the early Christian chi-rho monogram of Christ, is among the most intriguing yet poorly understood and ...
Of the hundreds of thousands of worshipers and sightseers who have entered the Cathedral of St.-Lazare in Autun, on a hill 150 miles southeast of Paris, probably only a handful have seen or pondered ...
Artist Jim Craft explains his work to a group of schoolchildren in Greenville, S.C. (Photo courtesy of Father Dwight Longenecker.) Listen Two years ago, my sister and her art professor husband Jim ...
Last month, the Spanish Supreme Court ordered the return of one of Spain’s great medieval treasures, the Sijena Murals, to their original monastery after nearly a century at the National Art Museum of ...
Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Gesta presents original research on developments in the study of art and life of the Middle Ages. The journal embraces all ...
AFTER the Moslem surge exploded out of Arabia in the 7th century and swept westward until it had engulfed Spain, one of the first areas to be liberated (by Charlemagne in 788) was Catalonia. There, in ...
His determination to see the architecture and sculpture of a small town in the Poitou region in terms other than that of workshops and issues of style sets this book apart from other recent works of ...