Art Museum Journal

Medieval Art Books: Specific Themes

By STAN PARCHIN
July 15, 2010

This selective list of books supplements Medieval Art: A General Bibliography. The titles that appear here deal with specific themes related to the art and civilization of the European Middle Ages (excluding England). They are arranged by region. Most of them are color-illustrated catalogues of special exhibitions written by art historians, curators and other respected scholars. Many of these publications can be obtained at bookstores and through the Internet.
 
Late Antique, Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Evans, Helen C., et al. Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557) (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
 
Evans, Helen C., Melanie Holcomb and Robert Hallman. The Arts of Byzantium. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.
 
Evans, Helen C. and William D. Wixom (eds.), et al. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261 (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.
 
Frazer, Margaret English. Age of Spirtuality: Late Antiquity and Early Christian Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977.
 
Nelson, Robert S. and Kristen M. Collins (eds.), et al. Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai (exh. cat.). Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006.
 
Weitzmann, Kurt, et al. Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977.
 
Williamson, Paul and Peta Motture (eds.), et al. Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the V&A. London: V&A Publications, 2007.
 
Celtic and Viking Art
Fitzhugh,William W. and Elizabeth I. Ward (eds.), et al. Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution, 2000.
 
Graham-Campbell, James and Dafydd Kidd. The Vikings (exh. cat.). New York: William Morrow Publishers, 1980.
 
Treasures of Early Irish Art (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977.
 
Central Europe
Boehm, Barbara Drake and Jiri Fajt (eds.), et al. Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437 (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.
 
France
Husband, Timothy B. The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the "Belles Heures" of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.
 
Jugie, Sophie. The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy (exh. cat.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010.
 
_____, Stephen N. Fliegel, et al. Art from the Court of Burgundy: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless 1364-1419 (exh. cat.). Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.
 
Wixom, William D. The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger, 1122-1151 (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.
 
Germany and Switzerland
Chapuis, Julien, et al. Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1999.
 
Bott, Gerhard, et al. Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550 (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.
 
Husband, Timothy B. and Julien Chapuis. The Treasury of Basel Cathedral (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.
 
Italy
Bonsonti, Giorgio. The Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi: Glory and Destruction. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997.
 
Buckton, David (ed.), et al. The Treasury of San Marco, Venice (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984.
 
Carboni, Stefano (ed.), et al. Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797 (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.
 
Kessler, Herbert L. and Johanna Zacharias. Rome 1300: On the Path of the Pilgrim. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000.
 
Morello, Giovanni and Laurence B. Kanter (eds.), et al. The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi (exh. cat.). Milan: Electa, 1999.