Title The bronze object in the Middle Ages : sculpture, material, making / Ittai Weinryb

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: Of bronze things -- Making -- Signification -- Acting -- Being -- Appendix One: Adémar of Chabannes (988-1034) -- Appendix Two: Hugh of Fouilloy (c. 1096-ca. 1172) -- Appendix Three: On the benediction of bells Summary This book presents the first full length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages. Taking as its point of departure the common medieval reception of bronze sculpture as living or animated, the study closely analyzes the practice of lost wax casting (cire perdue) in western Europe and explores the cultural responses to large scale bronzes in the Middle Ages. Starting with mining, smelting, and the production of alloys, and ending with automata, water clocks and fountains, the book uncovers networks of meaning around which bronze sculptures were produced and consumed. The book is a path-breaking contribution to the study of metalwork in the Middle Ages and to the re-evaluation of medieval art more broadly, presenting an understudied body of work to reconsider what the materials and techniques embodied in public monuments meant to the medieval spectator Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 11, 2016) Subject Bronzes, Medieval -- Europe -- History Monuments -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Bronzes, European -- History -- To 1500 Bronze sculpture, European -- History -- To 1500 Metal-work -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Bronze -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Art, Medieval -- Europe -- History Art and society -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 ART -- General. CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Metal Work. Art and society Art, Medieval Bronze Bronze sculpture, European Bronzes, European Bronzes, Medieval Manners and customs Metal-work Monuments SUBJECT Europe -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045760 Subject Europe Genre/Form dissertations. History Academic theses. Thèses et écrits académiques. Form Electronic book LC no. 2015039547 ISBN 9781316543320 1316543323 9781107123618 1107123615 9781316542897 1316542890

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