Studies In The Iconography Of The Virtues And Vices In The Middle Ages

First published in 1998, the present volume aims to help the researcher locate visual motifs, whether in medieval art or in literature, and to understand how they function in yet other medieval literary or artistic works.

Exploring the history of the cardinal virtues from patristic times to the late fourteenth century, this book offers a comprehensive view of the development of moral debate in the Latin Middle Ages.

This collection of essays explores the intersection of art and violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It will appeal primarily to students and scholars in the fields of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and will also be of interest to readers with an interest in medieval and early modern art history.

This study is a comprehensive survey of the iconography of the psychomachia motif including an analysis of the relationship between text and image based on the visual transformation of a verbal metaphor. Moral allegories, such as the battle of the virtues and vices representing the conflict between good and evil within the human soul, were important motifs, not only in literary and theological texts from the sixth to the sixteenth century in western Europe, but also in iconography. The transformations or metamorphoses of a central verbal metaphor as a motif in the visual arts provide a way to understand the mutual influence of word and image in developing a particular concept throughout the Middle Ages. The book includes a descriptive survey of the visual interpretations of the psychomachia allegory in all major works of art, manuscript illustrations, sculpture, paintings, and stained glass, as well as minor art forms, such as ivory and wood carvings and tapestries. Individual works are analyzed in terms of their conception of the allegory and various literary and theological sources or parallels are indicated.

This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.

A collection of essays that reflect the breadth of twentieth-century scholarship in art history. Kleinbauer has sought to illustrate the variety of methods scholars have developed for conveying the unfolding of the arts in the Western world. Originally published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1971.

Exploring the history of the cardinal virtues from patristic times to the late fourteenth century, this book offers a comprehensive view of the development of moral debate in the Latin Middle Ages.