Author : Jaroslav Folda
Release : 1995-08-25
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 837/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 by : Jaroslav Folda
Download or read book The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 written by Jaroslav Folda. This book was released on 1995-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 examines the art and architecture produced for the Crusaders in Syria-Palestine during the first century of their quest to recapture Jerusalem. Commissioned by kings and queens, patriarchs and bishops, knights and merchants, who came as pilgrims or settlers to the Holy Land, it is an art of manuscript illumination, fresco painting, mosaics, stone sculpture, metalwork, ivory carving, coins and seals by artists trained in the Latin West, and the Byzantine and Islamic East. Combining the stylistic and iconographic traditions of these regions, Crusader art defies easy categorization: indeed, it is a unique phenomenon within the spectrum of medieval art.
