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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2014
      09 June 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139583459
      9781107037052
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139583459
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.51kg, 626 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      History, Religion, Theology, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    In this book, Conrad Rudolph studies and reconstructs Hugh of Saint Victor's forty-two-page written work, The Mystic Ark, which describes the medieval painting of the same name. In medieval written sources, works of art are not often referred to, let alone described in any detail. Almost completely ignored by art historians because of the immense difficulty of its text, Hugh of Saint Victor's Mystic Ark (c.1125–30) is among the most unusual sources we have for an understanding of medieval artistic culture. Depicting all time, all space, all matter, all human history and all spiritual striving, this highly polemical painting deals with a series of cultural issues crucial in the education of society's elite during one of the great periods of intellectual change in Western history.

    Awards

    Honourable Mention, 2015 PROSE Award for Art History and Criticism

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