Ars Sacra, 800-1200

by Peter Lasko

This book deals with the art of church treasuries and cloisters in the early middle ages in Europe - the work of goldsmiths, ivory carvers, bronze casters, enamellers and wood carvers. These so-called 'Minor Arts' played a major creative role alongside the other pictorial arts and architectural sculpture. The book traces the unbroken development of the Sacred Arts and their interrelationships throughout Europe from the Renovatio of the arts - the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014056036X
• ISBN13: 9780140560367
• Release Date: April 1973
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.