This is the second Bulletin by William D. Wixom devoted to a survey of medieval sculptures in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum. The first volume, published in the winter of 1989, provides a summary of independent sculptures at The Cloisters. The present volume focuses on similar works, as well as several from architectural contexts on display in the galleries of the Medieval department in the main building of the Museum. Ranging in date from the ninth century to the late decades of the fourteenth century, the works discussed come from all over Europe and include ivory reliefs from the Carolingian, Ottonian, and Early Romanesque periods, statues made of copper alloy with gilding from the high Romanesque and Early Gothic periods, stone heads taken from full-length relief figures from the Gothic period, enthroned figures made of movable wood and stone from Late Gothic period, and smaller-scale carvings and statues from these five centuries. William D. Wixom, former Michel David-Weill chairman and now curator emeritus of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, examines chronology, style, iconography, and context as the primary and multifaceted basis for his study of these sculptures. In addition, he considers these works in terms of their expressive and decorative formal elements, including the interrelationships of mass, line, proportion, symmetry, texture, and color. Together, these factors accentuate the rich artistry of the largely anonymous medieval artists represented in the Museum’s collection.

48 pages, 64 illustrations (50 in full color), 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. Paper.


Medieval Sculpture at The Metropolitan: 800 to 1400
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