The Westminster Retable. History, Technique, Conservation - Paul Binski
history, technique, conservation
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2009Uitgever: Brepols Publishers464 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 190537528XISBN-13: 9781905375288Koop dit boek tweedehands
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The late 13th-century Westminster Retable is rightly celebrated as one of the most beautiful and enigmatic panel paintings to have survived from medieval Europe. Its history is not without tragedy. It was made in the Westminster Abbey, one of the most prestigious Gothic churches of the thirteenth century, itself a treasure-house of medieval wall and panel painting; then, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was demoted rapidly to use as part of a large cupboard; its ruination in the eighteenth centu...