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The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187

By Jaroslav Folda

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0521453836, 9780521453837
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
60 MB (63325169 bytes)
Pages
\747
Time added
2023-09-24 21:43:42

Description

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.

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