The allegory of the Church
romanesque portals and their verse inscriptions
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Author
Publication
1998 - University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario
Language
English
Word Count
100,250 words, Guess
Page Count
401 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL453114M
- ISBN-100802042627
- OCLC Control Number38106214
- OCLC Control Number666911983
- OCLC Control Numberallegoryofchurch0000kend
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98168204
- Goodreads1617993
- LibraryThing5049826
Classifications
- DDC246/.951822/09409021
- LCCNA5453 .K46 1998
Description
The Allegory of the church is the first full-length study of Romanesque verse inscriptions in the context of church portals and portal sculpture, and is the product of a twenty-year study. Calvin B. Kendall demonstrates how these inscriptions served to express the role of the church building as a concrete allegory of Christ and the Church. Describing them in detail, he traces the history and nature of the changes in allegorical interpretation of the inscriptions until, as medieval assumptions about language and rhetoric changed, they were finally abandoned by Gothic artists.
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