Additional Author:
Kessler, Herbert L., 1941-
Publisher:Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Hanover : Distributed by the University Press of New England, c1985.
Description:181 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Note:"Proceedings of the symposium, 'Pictorial narrative in antiquity and the Middle Ages', jointly sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; held in Baltimore on 16-17 March 1984"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
Note:After the battle is over : the Stele of the Vultures and the beginning of historical narrative in the art of the ancient Near East / Irene J. Winter -- Component design as a narrative device in Amarna tomb art / Elizabeth L. Meyers -- History, myth, and allegory in the program of the Temple of Athena Nike, Athens / Andrew F. Stewart --Pictorial narrative and church mission in sixth-century Gaul / Herbert L. Kessler -- The prestige of Saint Peter's : observations on the function of monumental narrative cycles in Italy / William Tronzo --The Shigisan-engi scrolls, c. 1175 / Yoshiaki Shimizu -- Narrative allusion and metaphor in the decoration of medieval Islamic objects / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- The new role of narrative in public painting of the Trecento : Historia and allegory / Hans Belting -- Restructuring the narrative : the function of ceremonial in Charles V's Grandes chroniques de France / Anne D. Hedeman.
