The allegory of the Church : romanesque portals and their verse inscriptions

Resource Information

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Label

The allegory of the Church : romanesque portals and their verse inscriptions

Title remainder

romanesque portals and their verse inscriptions

Statement of responsibility

Calvin B. Kendall ; with photographs by Ralph Lieberman

Creator

• Kendall, Calvin B

Subject

• Allegories
• Architectural inscriptions -- Europe
• Church doorways -- Europe
• Doorways, Romanesque -- Europe
• Inscriptions, Latin -- Europe

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

CaOTU

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

NA5453

LC item number

.K46 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography