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ART & ART HISTORY Visit us at the annual meeting of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Fort Worth, TX, Mar 19–23 Disaster as Image Classic Greek Masterpieces Iconographies and Media of Sculpture Strategies across Europe by Photini N. Zafiropoulou and Asia This publication presents 60 edited by Monica Juneja magnificent works of ancient Greek and Gerrit Jasper Schenk sculpture. The essays include a This volume collects inter- description and brief commentary disciplinary contributions on each piece. The works, presented to research the depiction, in chronological order, belong to transmission, and inter- the collections of the National Ar- pretation of catastrophes. chaeological Museum in Athens, the Topics discussed range from case studies in historical pictorial Louvre, the Pergamon Museum, the invention during the European Renaissance to the study of British Museum, the Metropolitan contemporary media phenomena, such as the international Museum of Art, and others. coverage of 21st-century catastrophes. 264p, 200 illus (Melissa Publishing 232p, 28 col & 114 b/w illus (Schnell & Steiner, April 2014) House, March 2015) paperback, paperback, 9783795427085, $35.00. Special Offer $28.00 9789602043387, $39.95. Special Offer $32.00 The Hours of Marie de’ Medici A Facsimile introduced by Eberhard König This enchanting illuminated manuscript was painted by one of the renowned Flemish illuminators in the sixteenth century. The volume reproduces all 176 pages of architectural interiors, gorgeous landscapes and detailed city scenes, each one depicting a narrative, as well as floral borders on a gold ground and historiated borders. 352p, 221 col illus (Bodleian Library, March 2015) hardcover, 9781851244072, $250.00. Special Offer $200.00 The Lady with the Phoenix Crown Tang-Period Grave Goods of the Noblewoman Li Chui (711–736) edited by Sonja Filip and Alexandra Hilgner For the first time, this volume presents the reconstruction of the opulent jewelry assemblage of a Tang-period noblewoman. This is the first time that these results are presented to a wider English-speaking public. Richly illustrated appendices throughout the text provide further insights into Tang-period everyday life. 144p, 155 col & 16 b/w illus (Schnell & Steiner, September 2014) hardcover, 9783795429270, $39.00. 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Taking a discusses both well-known and long- historicist approach, the study explores neglected examples, the forms of cult landscape imagery within a broad range of specific manuscript contexts, they generate and the virtual pilgrimages they serve, and calls attention to taking into account the ideological and the economic milieus in which their written and visual equivalents and companion. they were produced. Organized into three sections, this study looks at how 375p, illus (Brepols Publishers, February 2015, Cultural Encounters in Late landscape functioned as ornament, didactic tool, and political tool. Antiquity and the Middle Ages 18) paperback, 9782503551043, $218.00. 214p, 16 col & 85 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, May 2014) hardcover, Special Offer $175.00 9782503529776, $153.00. 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Block and Frédéric Billiet illumination, and musicology to reconsider the relationship between sound As well as an introduction that includes articles on the history and function of and image in the visual cultures of eastern and western Christianity, Judaism, medieval choir stalls, the lexicon provides illustrated multilingual definitions and Islam. The authors of Resounding Images take a variety of approaches to of the elements used in the construction and decoration of the stalls. The the now-missing intersection between the visual and the aural. book includes the most beautiful of the works of art which decorate the 250p, 48 col & 150 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, June 2015, Studies in the medieval choir stalls in thirteen Catholic countries of Europe. Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages 9) hardcover, 9782503554372, $145.00. 256p, illus (Brepols Publishers, March 2015, Profane Arts of the Middle Ages 2) Special Offer $116.00 hardcover, 9782503515120, $109.00. 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