EAN13
9781912168224
ISBN
978-1-912168-22-4
Éditeur
Paul Holberton Publishing
Date de publication
Nombre de pages
256
Dimensions
24 x 17 x 3 cm
Poids
946 g
Langue
français
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The Reredos of All Souls College Oxford

Paul Holberton Publishing

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Pevsner calls it ‘marvellous’. Yet the reredos of the fifteenth-century chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, with its combination of medieval niches and statuary by George Gilbert Scott, has remained one of the unsung glories of both medieval perpendicular architecture and Victorian restoration. Informed by recent scientific investigation of its stonework and its surviving medieval polychromy, this volume traces for the first time the entire history of the reredos in its architectural and religious context – from the phases of its medieval and early Tudor construction, through its covering up with a succession of baroque and neoclassical decorative schemes, to its uncovering and restoration in the 1870s.
The book provides a novel and revealing vantage point on the artistic, cultural and ecclesiological history of Britain across four centuries.
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