Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Medieval

The Dom Museum Wien presents itself architecturally and conceptually with a new orientation with exhibits from art, the church, and society. This guide brings to life formally extraordinary, diverse in content, and even mysterious art objects from the different epochs, like, for example, the first portrait of Rudolf IV the Founder or avant-garde classics from the Otto Mauer collection.

Das Eroffnungsbuch des neuen Dom Museum Wien beleuchtet die Themenbereiche rund um die vielfaltigen Sammlungsbestande, das Verhaltnis Kunst und Kirche und die architektonische wie inhaltliche Neugestaltung des Hauses. Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, Gesprache mit ExpertInnen und die visuelle Dokumentation der Werke aus unterschiedlichen Epochen der europaischen Geschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart runden den Band ab.

Das Dom Museum Wien am Stephansplatz prasentiert sich architektonisch und konzeptionell neu ausgerichtet im Spannungsfeld von Kunst, Kirche und Gesellschaft. In diesem Fuhrer werden formal aussergewohnliche, inhaltlich vielfaltige, mitunter auch ratselhafte Kunstobjekte aus den unterschiedlichen Epochen lebendig, etwa das erste Portrat des Abendlandes in Dreiviertelansicht Rudolf des Stifters oder die Avantgarde-Klassiker der Sammlung Otto Mauer.

Herbals (derived from the Latin liber herbalis 'book of herbs') are collections of plant descriptions covering the plants' medicinal, culinary, aromatic, magical, or other properties. Like other early manuscripts, herbals were often 'published' through repeated copying by hand. The herbal reproduced here is a copy of MS Masson 116 held at the Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. It was produced in Lombardy, North Italy in c.1440 and acquired in 1753 by the newly founded British Museum. Richly illustrated with full page color miniatures on each folio, it is currently held by the...

Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians including Male, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject matter of a work of medieval art can tell. Over the last thirty or so years, scholarship has seen the meaning and methodologies of the term considerably broadened.
This companion provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the influence of the...