1st Edition
Routledge Revivals: The Illuminations of the Stavelot Bible (1978)
By Wayne Dynes
Copyright 1978
386 Pages
by
Routledge
386 Pages
by
Routledge
386 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1978, this book offers a comprehensive study of the illuminations of the Stavelot Bible. The illuminations themselves have been recognized as occupying an important place in the incipient stage of the Romanesque style in the Meuse valley. The two volumes of the Bible contain no less than ninety-seven illuminated initials, almost half of them containing figures. Wayne Dynes’s... Read more
Table of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Historical Background of Stavelot and its Great Bible
2. Biblical Exegesis and Biblical Illumination
3. The Artists and their Styles
4. Vinea Domini
5. The Centrality of Christ
6. Moses and Joshua
7. Portraiture
8. Christ in Majesty
Appendices
Bibliography
Illustrations
Biography
Wayne Dynes
