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Stories in Stone Martial Rose

Stories in Stone By Martial Rose

Stories in Stone by Martial Rose


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Summary

Situated 80 feet up from the floor of the Norwich Cathedral, the roof bosses are too distant to be appreciated by worshippers. Their detail is discernible only from special vantage points or through binoculars. This book brings them to the public through photographs, described in a scholarly text.

Stories in Stone Summary

Stories in Stone: Medieval Roof Carvings of Norwich Cathedral by Martial Rose

Norwich Cathedral's magnificent roof bosses are one of the great hidden glories of medieval art. Over 1000 of these carved and painted keystones perch in the high stone vaulting, where they were placed between 1300 and 1515. Linked together in story-telling patterns they reflect a variety of subject - pagan, folk and Christian, the history of the world from the Creation to the Last Judgement, the Apocalypse, the early ministry of Christ and the life and death of John the Baptist. In quality and quantity Norwich's bosses are among the most impressive in Europe, while in their native arrangement they are entirely without parallel in the medieval world. Situated some 80 feet up from the floor of the Cathedral, the bosses of the nave and the transcept are too distant to have been fully appreciated by worshippers over the centuries. Until recently their character and detail has been discernible to only a dedicated few from special vantage points or through telescopes and binoculars. This book brings them to the general public through photographs, introduced and fully described in a scholarly text.

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GOR002812691
9780500279373
0500279373
Stories in Stone: Medieval Roof Carvings of Norwich Cathedral by Martial Rose
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
19970228
144
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