Main entry:

Strzygowski, Josef, 1862-1941, author

Title & Author:

Origin of Christian church art : new facts and principles of research / by Josef Strzygowski; eight lectures delivered for the Olaus-Petri Foundation at Upsala, to which is added a chapter on Christian art in Britain; translated from the German by O.M. Dalton, M.A., and H.J. Braunholtz, M.A.

Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1923.

Description:

xvii, 267, [1] pages : frontispiece, 46 plates on 28 leaves ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-259).
1. The new horizon -- 2. Community, church, and court -- 3. Local variation in the early Christian vaulted architecture of the East -- 4. The succession of periods in Western architecture -- 5. Religions without representational art -- 6. Non-representational church art, and the subsequent anti-representational movement -- 7. The triumph of representational art: Hellensim, Semitism, Mazdaism -- 8. Systematic investigation of essential character and application of the comparative method -- 9. Hiberno-Saxon art in the time of Bede -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Subject:

Christian art and symbolism.
Church architecture.
Architecture chrétienne.
churches (buildings)
Frühchristentum
Kunst

Added entries:

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, translator.
Braunholtz, H. J. (Hermann Justus), 1888-1963.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 41007
Call No.: W1316; ID:89-B1174
Status: Available