The allegory of the Church
Subtitle: romanesque portals and their verse inscriptions
By: Calvin B. Kendall ; with photographs by Ralph Lieberman.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Doorways, Romanesque -- Europe.; Church doorways -- Europe.; Architectural inscriptions -- Europe.; Inscriptions, Latin -- Europe.; Allegories.
Description: The Allegory of the church is the first full-length study of Romanesque verse inscriptions in the context of church portals and portal sculpture, and is the product of a twenty-year study. Calvin B. Kendall demonstrates how these inscriptions served to express the role of the church building as a concrete allegory of Christ and the Church. Describing them in detail, he traces the history and nature of the changes in allegorical interpretation of the inscriptions until, as medieval assumptions about language and rhetoric changed, they were finally abandoned by Gothic artists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-378) and index.