7 results on '"NORMAN art"'
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2. Fiat Lux : Functional Analysis of Three Saxo-Norman Pottery Lamps from Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
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Blinkhorn, Paul, Cramp, Lucy, Prior, Stuart, Glass, Emily, and Horton, Mark
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NORMAN art , *CERAMIC lamps , *ANGLO-Saxon pottery , *MEDIEVAL pottery , *ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations - Abstract
THIS PAPER COMPRISES analysis of three Saxo-Norman pottery lamps recovered during archaeological excavations in 2012 in the Edward Jenner Museum garden, Berkeley, Gloucestershire. While such vessels have been known to archaeologists since the earliest days of Saxon and medieval pottery studies, their specific function, other than general ‘lighting’, has never been considered. Similarly, the composition of the fuel in such lamps has not been scientifically verified. In the following paper, both of these areas are addressed through experimental archaeology and organic residue analysis. The conclusion reached is that the lamps were chosen for use in a late-Saxon industrial workshop as they were ideal for the setting, providing a consistent, stable and bright light source in comparison with other available lighting methods of the period. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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3. From Langford to South Cerney: The Rood in Anglo-Norman England.
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Marks, Richard
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CROSSES ,CHURCH architecture ,CHURCH buildings ,CRUCIFIXION of Jesus Christ in art ,MURAL art ,HOLY Cross ,ANGLO-Saxon art ,NORMAN art ,BRITISH history to 1485 ,HISTORY - Abstract
Two fragments of a figure of Christ crucified from South Cerney parish church comprise the sole survivor of a Romanesque wooden Rood with an English provenance. This paper argues that it is an example of a Triumphkreuz originally located at the chancel arch of South Cerney church and seeks to establish its relationship to both pre-Conquest monumental stone Rood sculpture and wooden Triumphkreuze in northern Europe and Scandinavia. The Triumphkreuz appears to have been a standard feature of the greater churches of Norman England, but how common it was in post-Conquest parish churches is less clear. While church dedications suggest that devotion to the Holy Cross was particularly strong in south-west England, late-11th- and 12th-century mural painting and sculpture of chancel arches in parish churches over a wide area exhibit a close connection with the Rood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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4. LITURGICAL FURNISHINGS AND ICONS IN THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DELL'AMMIRAGLIO IN PALERMO IN THE MIDDLE-AGES.
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DLSTEFANO, GLAMPAOLO
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MEDIEVAL Italian church history ,CULTURAL syncretism ,MIDDLE Ages ,CHURCH architecture ,BYZANTINE icons ,NORMAN art ,RELIGION - Abstract
By studying two ancient inventories --one of which original-- this contribution wishes to shed light on the relations between the precious furnishings of a medieval church and the liturgical, cultural and political events related to them. In this sense, the church of George of Antioch's Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio, built in the Norman part of Palermo, with its conspicuous collection of icons and images, reveals the cultural syncretism typical of Sicily between the 12
th and the 14th centuries, where the encounter between the West, Byzantium and Islam favoured the birth of a highly refined artistic language and a culture with a Mediterranean vocation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2011
5. The Episcopal and Royal Views at Cefalù.
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Johnson, Mark J.
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NORMAN mosaics ,NORMAN art ,EUROPEAN civilization -- Byzantine influences ,CIVILIZATION - Abstract
The relationship between patron and choice of subject in the Norman mosaics of Cefalù Cathedral is explored in this paper for the first time. It proposes that two views were designed into the program: an episcopal view with subjects chosen for their ties to the bishop, facing the bishop's throne on the south, and a corresponding royal view, facing the king's throne placed against the north wall, in a manner similar to what was accomplished at the contemporary Cappella Palatina in Palermo. Possible connections between certain figures in the royal view and the legendary founding of the church are also investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1994
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6. The Invention of Norman Visual Culture: Art, Politics, and Dynastic Invention.
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Tanton, Kristine
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NORMAN art , *ART & society -- History , *NONFICTION - Published
- 2021
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7. The painted ceilings of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo and the medieval Mediterranean
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Anzelmo, Francesca Manuela and Andaloro, Maria
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LART/01 ,Arte normanna ,Sicilia normanna ,Soffitti lignei ,Wooden ceilings ,Cappella Palatina ,Pittura islamica ,Mediterraneo ,Norman Sicily ,Muqarnas ,Mediterranean ,Norman art ,Islamic paintings - Abstract
I soffitti dipinti delle tre navate della Cappella Palatina di Palermo, caratterizzati da una straordinaria varietà di soggetti figurativi, ornamentali e da iscrizioni arabe, costituiscono il più ampio complesso di pitture esistenti non solo del Medioevo islamico ma anche di quello europeo e mediterraneo. Lo stile e molte delle iconografie appartengono al versante islamico della cultura medievale. Tuttavia, come è stato più volte evidenziato, alcune di esse si rifanno a modelli romanici o più precisamente cristiani. Il lavoro affronta lo studio dei soffitti dipinti della Cappella Palatina attraverso due distinti percorsi di ricerca: l’uno esamina il complesso strutturale e decorativo delle coperture palatine in relazione all’orizzonte artistico dei muqarnas decorati con pitture e dei soffitti lignei dipinti di matrice islamica nel Mediterraneo medievale e nella Sicilia normanna; l’altro, di carattere analitico, si rivolge ad un aspetto particolare delle pitture analizzando le vesti, i copricapo e i motivi ornamentali dei tessuti rappresentati nei soffitti. Lo studio si compone di due volumi: il primo contiene il testo. Il secondo accoglie un nutrito apparato di immagini, grafici e tabelle elaborate al fine di valorizzare e rendere facilmente fruibili i risultati della ricerca. Al secondo volume è allegato il database contenente 322 schede con la catalogazione tipologica delle vesti, dei copricapo e dei tessuti pertinenti alla raffigurazione dei personaggi del simposio regale rappresentato nelle pitture della Cappella. La prima parte del lavoro, suddivisa in tre capitoli, è dedicata all’approfondimento di alcune tematiche solo parzialmente esaminate dagli studi e utili alla contestualizzazione dei soffitti della Cappella su diversi livelli: dall’ampia cornice culturale del Mediterraneo medievale a quella più specifica della Sicilia normanna e del monumento ‘Cappella Palatina’. I nuclei centrali della ricerca sono i seguenti: l’individuazione di una corrente artistica islamica del Mediterraneo medievale caratterizzata dall’uso, in ambito palaziale, di muqarnas decorati con pitture figurative e ornamentali; l’analisi delle caratteristiche della circolazione artistica dei muqarnas dipinti tra corti islamiche e cristiane nel Mediterraneo dei secoli XI e XII; lo studio delle peculiarità delle coperture lignee con pitture di matrice islamica della Sicilia normanna nell’ambito del quale una attenzione particolare è rivolta ai casi della chiesa di S. Spirito e della chiesa della Magione, le cui strutture attualmente in opera, considerate frutto di rifacimenti integrali del XIX secolo e della prima metà del XX, hanno rivelato la presenza di possibili porzioni di pittura di epoca normanna; la ricostruzione del complesso quadro delle vicende conservative relative ai soffitti dipinti della Cappella Palatina, dal periodo medievale fino ai restauri inediti condotti tra il 1948-1953 da Cesare Brandi e dai restauratori dell’Istituto Centrale del Restauro di Roma. La seconda parte del lavoro, incentrata sullo studio delle vesti, dei copricapo e dei tessuti rappresentati nei soffitti della Cappella Palatina, ha riguardato 360 personaggi. L’indagine si è sviluppata lungo due binari: uno analitico, dedicato sulla classificazione tipologica; l’altro rivolto all’esame puntuale dei risultati emersi dalla catalogazione e allo studio dei confronti e dei modelli di riferimento più appropriati per le diverse categorie tipologiche individuate. Attraverso il percorso ‘orientato’ al mondo delle vesti, dei copricapo e dei motivi ornamentali delle stoffe sono emersi risultati interessanti che da una parte forniscono un contributo alla conoscenza e alla comprensione delle pitture dei soffitti; dall’altra offrono nuovi dati sia alle questioni di carattere più ampio e complesso, quali sono quelle attinenti alla provenienza delle maestranze o alla datazione della decorazione pittorica delle tre navate, sia agli studi indirizzati ora alla sfera degli aspetti ‘pratici’ del modus operandi dei pittori in riferimento alla rappresentazione dei motivi ornamentali ora al campo della cultura materiale nel Mediterraneo, in particolare a quella relativa al mondo islamico. The three ceilings of the Cappella Palatina display thousands of paintings with several different figural and ornamental subjects and Arabic inscriptions. They represent the largest ensemble of paintings still extant, not just from the Medieval Muslim world, but also in Europe and the Mediterranean. The style of the paintings and most of the iconographies belong to an Islamic tradition. Indeed, as it has been pointed out, iconographies in the ceiling are not exclusively based on Islamic models, but also Western and more specifically Christian. The work deals with the study of the painted ceilings of the Cappella Palatina through two distinct research paths: one examines the ceilings in relation to the painted muqarnas and wooden ceilings in the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean and Norman Sicily; the other is aimed at a particular aspect of the paintings by analysing the dresses, headgears and ornamental motifs of the textiles represented in the ceilings. The study consists of two volumes: the first contains the text; the second includes a large number of images, graphics and tables drawn up in order to enhance and make easily accessible the results of the research. The second volume contains also the database containing 322 records with the typological cataloguing of dresses, headgears and ornamental patterns of the textiles depicted in the royal symposium represented in the paintings. The first part of the work, divided into three chapters, is devoted to the deepening of some issues useful to contextualize the ceilings of the Chapel on different levels: from the large cultural framework of the medieval Mediterranean to the one most specific of the Norman Sicily and the monument 'Cappella Palatina’. The cores of the research are: the identification of a ‘courtly trend’ in Islamic building decoration in the Mediterranean area characterized by the use of muqarnas decorated with ornamental and figurative paintings; the analysis of the characteristics of the artistic circulation of painted muqarnas between Christian and Islamic court in the Mediterranean, between the 11th and 12th centuries; the study of the peculiarities of the ‘Islamic’ painted ceilings of Norman Sicily, in which special attention is paid to the cases of the Church of S. Spirito and the Church of the Magione, whose structures currently in place - considered the result of a wholemeal reconstruction of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth - have revealed the presence of possible paintings from the Norman period; the reconstruction of the complex history of restorations relating to the painted ceilings of the Cappella Palatina, from the medieval period to the unpublished restorations carried out by Cesare Brandi and the Istituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome between 1948-1953. The second part of the paper is focused on the study of dresses, headgears and ornamental motifs of the textiles depicted in the ceilings of the Cappella Palatina. The survey involve 360 characters and is developed along two tracks: one dedicated to the typological classification; the other aimed both to a careful examination of the results from the cataloguing and to a research of the most appropriate comparisons and reference models for the different categories identified. Through the path 'oriented' to the world of dresses, headgears and textiles, interesting results have emerged. On the one hand they makes a contribution to knowledge and understanding of the paintings of the ceilings; on the other, they provide new data to different issues, such as those referring to the place of origin of the artists or the dating of the paintings of the three naves, or those directed now to 'practical' aspects of the modus operandi of the painters in reference to the representation of the ornamental motifs, now to the aspects of material culture in the Mediterranean, in particular those relating to the Islamic world. Dottorato di ricerca in Memoria e materia dell'opera d'arte attraverso i processi di produzione, storicizzazione, conservazione, musealizzazione
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- 2013
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