Sculpture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

by Duby, Georges; Daval, Jean-Luc; Bruneau, Philippe

• ISBN13: 9783822870594
• ISBN10: 3822870595
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Taschen America Llc

Table of Contents

Greek Art
Philippe Bruneau
General Introduction	9	(2)
Background to the study of Greek sculpture	11	(7)
Statuary and relief	18	(4)
Art and craftsmanship	22	(3)
How statues were used	25	(5)
The Archaic Period
Small figures	30	(2)
Large statues	32	(10)
Architectural sculpture	42	(10)
The sculpture of the Acropolis, Athens	52	(5)
The Classical Period
``The invention of art'' and the question of lost originals	57	(6)
Five master sculptors	63	(6)
Themes and styles of Classical statuary: realism and idealism	69	(4)
Architectural sculpture	73	(9)
The freestanding relief	82	(3)
The art of the goldsmith	85	(3)
Greek sculpture outside Greece	88	(7)
The Hellenistic and Imperial Periods
Hellenistic sculpture	95	(5)
The sanctuary at Delphi	100	(2)
The development of the portrait	102	(4)
Sculpture in the home	106	(2)
The Imperial period	108	(7)
The Art of the Etruscans
Mario Torelli
The historical background to Etruscan art	115	(2)
The birth of figurative art: from the geometric style to Daedalic sculpture	117	(3)
The flowering of Ionian art of the Archaic period	120	(6)
The ``courtly'' austerity of the oligarchies	126	(4)
The late-Classical renaissance	130	(6)
The Etruscan Hellenistic style in the Italic koine	136	(6)
The process of Romanization	142	(5)
The Roman World
Xavier Barral i Altet
Introduction	147	(3)
The New Functions of Sculpture
Architecture and sculpture	150	(4)
Originals and copies	154	(2)
Public sculpture and official propaganda	156	(4)
Iconography	160	(3)
The house and its decoration	163	(4)
Roman Realism
The portrait and its development	167	(5)
Sarcophagi and funerary sculpture	172	(3)
The historical relief	175	(2)
Religion and politics	177	(4)
Working with the Raw Material
Patrons and sculptors	181	(2)
The capital	183	(2)
Materials and colour	185	(2)
Bronze	187	(2)
Silver and ceramics	189	(4)
The Development of Roman Sculpture
The Republican era	193	(2)
The Augustan myth	195	(3)
Imperial art under the Flavians and Antonines	198	(6)
Changes during the third century	204	(3)
Originality in the Provinces
Mare Nostrum	207	(7)
The Iberian peninsula	214	(4)
Gaul and Germany	218	(6)
The outlying regions	224	(3)
The Decline of Empire
Art under Constantine	227	(3)
The Christianized sarcophagus	230	(3)
Constantinople	233	(4)
Conclusion	237	(2)
Picture Credits	239	(8)
Preface	247	(2)
Georges Duby
From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Xavier Barral i Altet
Introduction	249	(2)
Georges Duby
Christians and non-Christians: Late Antiquity	251	(2)
Interlaces and animal decoration	253	(2)
Monastic decorations in Merovingian Gual	255	(3)
Visigothic and Asturian Spain	258	(2)
Early medieval Italy	260	(2)
Carolingian art: ivories and goldsmithery	262	(2)
On the threshold of Romanesque art	264	(2)
Romanesque Art (1000-1200)
Xavier Barral i Altet
Introduction	266	(3)
Georges Duby
Formation of the Style
Ottonian sculpture	269	(2)
The elaboration of the Romanesque capital	271	(2)
The tower-porch of Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire	273	(3)
From Toulouse to Compostela: the efflorescence of sculpture	276	(4)
The prestige of Cluny	280	(1)
The Meaning of the Imagery
The tympanum and the social order	281	(6)
The Apocalypse and the vision of Matthew	287	(2)
The triumphal facade	289	(5)
The portals with arch mouldings of western France and the cycle of time	294	(2)
The historiated cloister	296	(4)
The embellishment of towns	300	(2)
The Varieties of Creation
Romanesque style and geography in France	302	(6)
The Pyrenean marble-cutters	308	(2)
Central and northern Italy: between Mediterranean and Adriatic	310	(4)
The Roman marble-cutters	314	(1)
Southern Italy and Sicily	315	(3)
The Christian Iberian peninsula face to face with Islam	318	(2)
The Germanic World and Central Europe	320	(2)
The insular phenomenon	322	(2)
The Wealth of Techniques
Signature and work of the Romanesque sculptor	324	(2)
Woodcarving	326	(8)
Bronze	334	(2)
Goldwork	336	(2)
The Last Burst of Vitality
Provence and Antiquity	338	(2)
Antelami or the new manners	340	(2)
Southern eclecticism in the 1200s	342	(2)
The sculpture of the Crusades	344	(2)
The Expansion of Gothic (1150-1280)
Xavier Barral i Altet
Introduction	346	(3)
Georges Duby
Sculpture and Architecture
The cathedral in the town	349	(1)
The column statue: an expression of the new style	350	(2)
Saint-Denis, Chartres, Paris: origins of the Gothic sculpture	352	(5)
The tympanum of Senlis and the new Marian cult	357	(4)
Sculpture in northern France around 1200	361	(2)
Amiens cathedral	363	(2)
Reims cathedral	365	(2)
Fresh inspiration in Paris	367	(1)
History, religion, politics: the arcades of kings	368	(2)
English Gothic
Rejection of the great sculptured portal	370	(1)
The screen facade	371	(1)
Sculpture as interior decoration: Westminster	372	(2)
Diffusion of Gothic in the Empire
A late assimilation of Gothic	374	(1)
Strasbourg cathedral	375	(3)
Bamberg cathedral	378	(2)
Other forms of creation	380	(2)
The Originality of Southern Gothic
The Portico de la Gloria in Santiago de Compostela	382	(1)
Burgos and Leon: north-south currents	383	(2)
The Mediterranean facade and Cistercian art	385	(2)
The Italy of Frederick II	387	(1)
Nicola Pisano	388	(3)
Giovanni Pisano	391	(2)
Arnolfo di Cambio	393	(1)
The Evolution of the Sculptor's Craft	394	(147)
Court Art (1280-1400)
Xavier Barral i Altet
Introduction	398	(4)
Georges Duby
Sculpture and the Courtly Spirit
Donors and patrons in a century of crises	402	(2)
The return to marble and alabaster	404	(2)
The reality of the body	406	(2)
The decor of private life	408	(2)
Sculpture and Politics
The princely and royal tomb effigies	410	(2)
The ostentation of the tomb	412	(3)
The vanity of the portrait	415	(3)
Public sculpture	418	(3)
Sculpture and New Devotions
The individual cult statue	421	(4)
The chapel as sculpture	425	(2)
Sculpturing gold	427	(3)
An original imagery: the stalls	430	(2)
Paris and the New Northern Modernity
The flowering of the early 1300s	432	(2)
The triumph of narrative: the choir screen of Notre-Dame	434	(2)
The artistic policy of Charles V	436	(2)
Jean de Liege and England	438	(3)
Andre Beauneveu	441	(2)
Princely refinement	443	(2)
The Southern Crossroads
Avignon and the patronage of the popes	445	(3)
The originality of Languedoc	448	(2)
Tradition and innovation south of the Pyrenees	450	(1)
The Catalan masters	451	(3)
The Quickening of Italian Art
The radiance of Tuscany: Tino di Camaino	454	(2)
The facade of Orvieto cathedral	456	(2)
Andrea Pisano	458	(2)
Orcagna and Nino Pisano	460	(2)
Northern Italy	462	(2)
Towards International Gothic
The world of the Parlers	464	(2)
Prague	466	(3)
Cologne	469	(2)
Glow and Afterglow of Gothic (1400-1530)
Sophie Cuillot de Suduiraut
Introduction	471	(4)
Georges Duby
International Gothic Style
The Beautiful Madonnas	475	(1)
The evolution of iconography	476	(3)
Materials and techniques	479	(1)
The Master of the Rimini Altarpiece	480	(1)
Diversity of functions	481	(2)
Funerary art	483	(4)
Claus Sluter	487	(3)
The Conditions of Creation
Altarpieces	490	(6)
The sculptors	496	(6)
Worship and liturgy	502	(3)
``The bitter taste of life''	505	(2)
Late Gothic
The Germanic World and the Netherlands	507	(1)
Nicholas of Leyden	507	(2)
The ``leaning bust'' theme	509	(2)
Tyrol and Austria	511	(3)
Franconia	514	(1)
Veit Stoss	514	(3)
Tilman Riemenschneider	517	(1)
Swabia	518	(2)
Netherlands, western and northern Germany	520	(2)
France	522	(1)
The heritage of Claus Sluter	522	(1)
The ``easing up''	523	(1)
Loire valley	524	(2)
Southwestern France	526	(1)
Champagne and Picardy	527	(1)
England	528	(3)
Spain and Portugal	531	(5)
Between Gothic and Baroque	536	(3)
The Destruction of images	539	(2)
Conclusion	541	(3)
Georges Duby
Picture Credits	544