Word and Image in 11th Century Art and Literature
FAIN: FA-12380-78
Stephen G. Nichols
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205)
To examine the ways by which art and history in 11th century France linked history and divine revelation within a context of evolving esthetic consciousness. Study will show how a formal principle--cruciform symbolism--was developed for art which made it possible to represent the divine order and the human world in the same works.