The medieval wall paintings of the church of S. Maria in Pallara, situated on the Palatine Hill, Rome, provide insight into the intellectual use of images in the Middle Ages. The fragmentary apse programme survives, supplemented by antiquarian drawings that include copi...

There are at least twenty-nine Madonna tabernacles from 1150–1350 with one or more wings preserved, most of them in Scandinavia and Spain. These tabernacles housed a sculpture of the Virgin and Child. In the open position, the central sculpture would be revealed, surrou...

Si bien la arquitectura y el arte han tenido una estrecha relación como constructores de la cultura humana a lo largo de los años, ambos se han desarrollado tanto en el campo técnico como en el creativo. Las relaciones que se presentan entre ambas disciplinas pueden ser...

[cat] A Sardenya són molts els fragments medievals recuperats a les esglésies actualment destruïdes i sovint reconeguts com fora de context. Per tant, als especialistes els és difícil investigar adequadament artefactes com els epígrafs greco-sards. Alguns d’aq...

The paper is devoted to the Byzantine wooden sculpture, least known and conserved segment of artistic creativity in Byzantine empire. All such artefacts, well known to experts for a long time, are commented in the text. These art objects are observed in comparison to th...

The paper sheds light on the development of the theoretical and methodological layer in Serbian texts about the art created during the nineteenth century and recognises the gradual change in the system of values, which was the precondition for the interpretation of medi...

Recurs d'aprenentatge de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Material publicat amb llicència Creative Commons passats 6 semestres des de la data de publicació. Recurso de aprendizaje de la "Universitat Oberta de Catalunya". Material publicado con licencia Creative Commo...

The frescoes in the narthex of the Church of the Transfiguration at the Zrze Monastery near Prilep (1368/1369) depict several unusual themes, as well as a very rare iconography. The holy monks painted in the lower zone of frescoes can be interpreted as the three categor...

Through selected examinations of the art produced under the Angevin, Orsini, and Tocco families,Case Studies on Agency and Identity in the Art and Architecture of the Late Medieval Morea, Epirus, and Kingdom of Naples addresses how the political connections and geograph...