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The Westminster retable : history, technique, conservation
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ISBN: 9781905375288 190537528X Year: 2009 Volume: 2 Publisher: Whittlesford: The Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge,


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From conservation to interpretation : studies of religious art (c.1100-c.1800) in Northern and Central Europe in honour of Peter Tangeberg
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ISBN: 9789042934665 9042934662 Year: 2017 Volume: 7 Publisher: Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters

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Technology and conservation are indispensible to our understanding of the history of religious art. Material and technical aspects of historical art works yield a great deal of information about provenance, and thus reflect the cultural networks that characterized the world that produced them. Furthermore, the imagery and decoration of art works express their religious meanings, while details including reworking and damage may inform us about their use (or disuse) in liturgy and devotion. The Swedish conservator and art historian Peter Tångeberg has shown how the insights and methods of art conservation can make important steps in the history of art (not least religious art). He has brought the wealth of medieval and early modern art works in Scandinavia to a European audience and opened up new discussions – as well as stirring up old ones – on a range of aspects, including the transfer of styles and motifs, materials and technologies across Central and Northern Europe. This volume, which is dedicated to Tångeberg by fifteen friends and colleagues on the occasion of his 75th birthday, reflects much of his long and fruitful professional life. All of the contributions pursue a combined perspective on technical/material issues and contextual (mostly liturgical or devotional) aspects. The art works cover the period from c. 1100 to c. 1800 and all originated in the wide area of Tångeberg’s scholarly activity, especially Scandinavia and large parts of Western and Central Europe


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The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone : history, archaeology and conservation
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ISBN: 1782971556 178297153X 9781782971535 9781782971559 9781782971528 1782971521 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books,

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Constructed in 1297-1300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the Middle Ages. It incorporated in its seat a block of sandstone, which the king seized at Scone, following his victory over the Scots in 1296. For centuries, Scottish kings had been inaugurated on this symbolic 'Stone of Scone', to which a copious mythology had also become attached. Edward I presented the Chair, as a holy relic, to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, and most English monarchs since the fourteenth century have

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