The Bayeux Tapestry : monument to a Norman triumph
Grape, Wolfgang1994
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Main title:
The Bayeux Tapestry : monument to a Norman triumph / Wolfgang Grape.
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Imprint:
Munich : Prestel ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], c1994.
Collation:
174 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 28 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Bayeux tapestry : an eleventh-century pictorial spectacle -- An extraordinary tapestry. Errors in restoration? -- Reportage or imagination?. A single designer? ; First-hand experience? ; Knowledge of warfare and weaponry? ; Fantasy architecture -- Living detail. Observation of everyday life ; Tools and implements ; Details of combat ; Horses and riders ; Nature as landscape -- New pictorial inventions. The 'Last supper' in the Norman camp ; Hunting scenes ; Drolleries -- The ships. Shields on the gunwhale ; Shields at stem and stern ; Sails ; Animal heads ; Human heads ; Pagan customs ; Transporting horses ; Harbour works? ; Sounding and a signal lamp -- Open questions. Turold ; The Ælfgyva mystery -- The borders. Borders as glosses? ; Fables ; Calendar motifs, pattern books, eroticism ; Images of nature -- Anglo-Saxon workmanship?. The issue ; A Winchester relief ; Not Anglo-Saxon figure drawing ; Anglo-Saxon continuity? ; Embroidery technique as a factor? ; Art at Saint-Vaast ; Line and plane in early Romanesque art ; Architecture and pictorial composition ; Figures in Catalan art ; Painting at Jumièges ; A relief on a capital in Bayeux ; Parallels with Anglo-Norman art ; The stylistic arguments summarized : a Norman work -- The iconogrpahical programme : a Norman viewpoint. The patron : Bishop Odo ; William's tactical delay ; Norman chronicles ; The crowning of the usurper ; Divergences from the sources ; 'Rewriting' history ; French poetry -- Inscriptions. Text and image ; A number of scribes? ; Anglo-Saxon and Norman- French features ; Normandy and England before 1066 -- Baudri of Bourgeuil and the tapestry -- The embroidery technique and its Norse antecedents. Embroiderers or embroideresses? ; Yarn colours ; Connections with Norse textiles -- Traditions of Viking art. Stylized trees ; Norse reminiscences ; 'Barbaric' use of colour ; Viking ornament.Narrative techniques. Narrative community ; Trees as participants ; New narrative forms ; Reversals of sequence ; Gestural exuberance ; Spectator involvement -- A pioneer work. Anticipations of Anglo-Norman narrative art ; Faces in profile -- The status of secular art. Critics within the church ; Objections to religious figuration -- A work of Norman pictorial propaganda. Palace or church? ; Sacred and secular art in church ; Erotic detail ; A portable triumphal monument ; A 'feudalized' response to art ; History through Norman eyes ; Cracks in the image, and a topical dimension -- Plates. The tapestry sequence ; Inscriptions and commentaries -- Map -- Chronology.
ISBN:
3791313657 (paperback)
Dewey class:
746.4404330942942.021
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
366732
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research | History Support Collection | 942.021 BAY | Available |