Title: Pictorial narrative in antiquity and the middle ages /
Authors: Kessler, Herbert L., 1941-; Simpson, Marianna Shreve, 1949-; Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.); Johns Hopkins University.
Publisher: National Gallery of Art ; Distributed by the University Press of New England,
Year: 1985
Subjects: Narrative art Congresses.; Art, Ancient Congresses.; Art, Medieval Congresses; Narrative art Themes, motives Congresses.; Art, Ancient Themes, motives Congresses.; Art, Medieval Themes, motives Congresses.; Narrative art Themes, motives.; Art, Medieval Themes, motives; Art, Ancient Themes, motives.
Contents: 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.