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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)246.951822Religions Christian Devotional Literature and Practical Theology Christian Art and Symbolism; Use of artLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |