LINKS TO OTHER PARADOXPLACE BOOK PAGES
Books about the Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The page of books about the Early Middle Ages has been moved
Link to Books about the History, Architecture and Art of the Medieval Christian Church
Link to Art Books & Guides for Cathedrals, Abbeys, Priories and Churches in the UK
Link to Artists of the Italian Renaissance
Books about Florence, the Italian Renaissance and Later Middle Ages
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High quality H F Ullmann coffee table tour de force
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A celebration of the reopening of the V & A Medieval and Renaissance galleries in late 2009
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This is the stunning coffee table sized book of the stunning Royal Academy exhibition "Byzantium", which was on at the Royal Academy in London in early 2009.
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Romanesque & Gothic France: Art and Architecture - Buy from Amazon USA
Romanesque and Gothic France: Architecture and Sculpture
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Link to Rose Windows in Paradoxplace
The North Transept Rose Window, Chartres Cathedral
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Four of the best produced and most interesting large books on medieval architecture in the Team Paradox library
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Ulrike Laule et al's Architecture of the Middle Ages mainly concentrates brilliantly on abbeys and churches, but includes some secular architecture. Though not as comprehensive as the two Schütz books below, it's our favourite of the four books here.
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At last search, this beautiful book was only available second hand, but it is well worth the effort to find.
Link to Paradoxplace Cloister Pages
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"Great Cathedrals" by Schütz has seriously good photographic coverage of the main cathedrals of England, France, Germany, Spain and Italy (ex Puglia, which you have to come to this site for), and a lot of it.
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Schütz's even fatter fat and equally well photographed "Great Monasteries of Europe" does for monasteries what his book on the left did for cathedrals. |
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Books related to Christianity (including Cathedral Architecture)
Artists of the Italian Renaissance
Books written in the Middle Ages
Biographies and Autobiographies
These books were originally large hard cover coffee table books published by Könemann, now appearing in very good value reduced page size under the name of both Könemann and Ullmann.
On the right is the amazingly modern looking Margravine Uta, wife of Margrave Ekkehard II, statued in Naumburg Cathedral (Eastern Germany) c1250. A "Margrave", originally the head of a frontier (and therefore important) state, is equivalent to a Marquis in the Anglo-noble pecking order and a Marchese in Italy. In pre city-state times there was a Margrave of Tuscany based in Lucca then later Florence. Sometimes the frontier state heads had even more direct emperor authority - such as the Prince Bishops of Durham, or the Abbots of Sant'Antimo (who had the title Conte Palatino).
A companion coffee table book to the one above, but not as colourful.
The cover shows the famous figure of Peace from A Lorenzetti's fresco "The Court of the Common Good" in the Town Hall of Siena
Books in the Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series (USA)
This is the coffee table book of the stunning Royal Academy exhibition "Byzantium", which was on in London in 2008-09.
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The definitive understanding of the development of Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe.
The cover shows the Abbazia di Sant'Antimo in Southern Tuscany (link to lots more paradoxplace photos of this, Italy's most beautiful abbey).
Books from the Oxford History of Art
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One of the best (smaller) coffee table books (but not covers!) - lots of top photos.
The cover shows the Ca'd'Oro on the Grand Canal in Venice.
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Masters of Italian Art Books (Amazon USA)
Masters of Italian Art Books (Amazon UK)
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ARTISTS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE - LISTING AND LINKS
LINK TO BOOKS ABOUT THE MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND ITS CATHEDRALS LINKS TO OTHER PARADOXPLACE BOOK PAGES
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