Westminster Abbey : The Lady Chapel of Henry VII

Westminster Abbey : The Lady Chapel of Henry VII

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 440 p., 12 colour
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781843830375
  • DDC分類 726.80942132

基本説明

An account of the history, architecture and monuments of Henry VII's Lady Chapel at Westminster.

Full Description


The Lady Chapel constructed at the wish of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey is the last great masterpiece of English medieval architecture, and the culminating achievement of over three hundred years of development in the gothic style, at the point where it intersects with the new movements of the Renaissance. The burial place of some fifteen kings and queens, it houses both the largest surviving programme of gothic figure sculpture and the earliest and finest Renaissance tomb sculptures in England. This new book covers all the most important aspects of the Chapel's history, from the establishment of the cult of the Virgin in the twelfth century to the restoration of the 1990s, whichprovided an unrepeatable opportunity for close examination of the structure and contents of the building which is the subject of this volume.Contributors: ROGER BOWERS, DONALD BUTTRESS, THOMAS COCKE, MARGARET CONDON,BARBARA HARVEY, JACQUES HEYMAN, PHILLIP LINDLEY, RICHARD MORTIMER, JULIAN MUNBY, JOHN PHYSICK, ANDREW REYNOLDS, TIM TATTON-BROWN, CHARLES TRACY, CHRISTOPHER WILSON.Historians of British Art Book Prize for 2003RICHARD MORTIMER was formerly Keeper of the Muniments, Westminster Abbey; TIM TATTON-BROWN is Consultant Archaeologist to Westminster Abbey.

Contents

The monks of Westminster and the old Lady chapel - Barbara F HarveyThe musicians and liturgy of the Lady chapels of the monastery church, c.1235-1540 - Roger BowersGod save the king! Piety, propaganda and the perpetual memorial - Margaret CondonThe last will of Henry VII: document and text - Margaret CondonThe functional design of Henry VII's chapel: a reconstruction - Christopher WilsonThe building history of the Lady chapels - Tim Tatton-BrownAn archaeological survey of the vaults of Henry VII's chapel - Andrew ReynoldsThe roofs of Henry VII's chapel - Julian MunbyThe structure of the high vault of Henry VII's chapel - J HeymanThe Henry VII chapel stalls and their eighteenth-century remodelling - Charles TracyAn appendix on the carpentry of the stalls - Julian Munby'The singuler mediacion and praiers of al the holie companie of Heven': sculptural functions and forms in Henry VII's chapel - Philip G LindleyThe royal, the great and the good: the history of the later monuments - John PhysickHenry VII chapel: the royal connection - Thomas CockeThe earlier restorations [with Richard Mortimer] - Tim Tatton-BrownThe earlier restorations [with Tim Tatton-Brown] - Richard MortimerRestoring the chapel, 1991-6 - Donald Buttress