Thursday 13 October 2011A celebration of the creativity, ingenuity, and skill of medieval artists

To be published by D Giles Limited in association with the Walters Art Museum in September 2011, The Medieval World: The Walters Art Museum is a beautifully illustrated volume that explores significant themes of medieval art through an examination of nearly 150 stunning objects from this internationally renowned museum.

The Walters Art Museum holds one of the richest collections of medieval art in the United States, with remarkable examples of sculpture, ivories, metalwork, enamels, stained glass, jewelry and illuminated manuscripts, ranging in date from Late Antiquity to the early Renaissance. With a lively narrative-based text, this new volume is not just a catalogue, but serves as an introduction and guide to a fuller understanding and appreciation of medieval art.

And, as The Introduction explains: “The best way to learn more about medieval art – or any kind of art – is to see it with your own eyes…this book will enrich your experience the next time you are face to face with a work of medieval art.”

Divided into topics such as the classical tradition, materials and manufacture, liturgical implements and their context, relics and reliquaries, and objects from daily life, each of the chapters is generously illustrated with full views, feature boxes and details. A final chapter on the nineteenth-century revival of interest in medieval art among collectors and scholars puts emphasis on Henry Walters (1848–1931), the Baltimore-based businessman who founded the Walters Art Museum. A pioneer collector of medieval art in America, it was Walters’ passion for the Middle Ages that created the collection of medieval art and illuminated manuscripts which forms the core of the museum’s medieval holdings.

This book features a selection of works from the museum’s collection, with an extensive and fully annotated checklist, notes for further reading, and index.

The Authors
Martina Bagnoli is the Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Medieval Art at the Walters Art Museum. Kathryn Gerry is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Medieval Art at the Walters Art Museum.

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
The Walters Art Museum

216 pages, 270 x 205mm (8 x 10 ⅝ in), portrait
200 colour illustrations, hardback
ISBN: 978 1 904832 96 6
Price: US$45.00/UK£30.00
Publication date: September 2011
Publisher: D Giles Limited, London

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