Decorating the Lord's Table Format: Hardcover

Edited by Søren Kaspersen and Erik Thunø

ISBN 10: 8763501333 / ISBN 13: 9788763501330

Published by University of Chicago press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decorating the Lord's Table Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8763501333
• ISBN 13: 9788763501330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

As the locus of the Christian ritual, the altar has often been the object of artistic attention. Decorating the Lord’s Table treats the profusion of sumptuously ornate altars produced in various media during the European Middle Ages. Many of the altars display images of Christ, the saints, and Biblical personages, often in conjunction with narrative cycles depicting the lives of Christ and various saints. Investigating interrelationships between image and altar in the light of important recent methodological developments in the field of art history, the essays in this book treat themes such as the human body, materiality, pictorial narrative, and liturgy, and focus on evidence from Italian, German, and Scandinavian contexts.

About the Author

Søren Kaspersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.Erik Thunø is and Assistant Professor at the Department of Art History at Rutgers University.