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Saxl, Fritz; Wittkower, Rudolf
British art and the Mediterranean — London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1948

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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.56731#0011
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CONTENTS

i. Mediterranean Traces in Prehistoric Britain
2-4. Celtic Transformation of Classical Forms
2. Celtic Ornament: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical
3. The Human Face in Celtic Art
4. Celtic Animal Design, the Witham Shield and the Desborough Mirror
5-11. Roman Britain
5. Romans and Barbarians
6. The Roman Face
7. The Roman Face Transformed
8. The Classical Tradition : Gods in Human Shape
9. Classical Monsters and Celtic Divinities
10. Triumph and Death
11. Theatre, Lettering, Coinage: Modern Revivals of Roman Types
12-18. Anglo-Saxon Art and the South
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13. The Spread of Christianity and the Early Churches
14. Introduction of Christian Figure Art after the Synod of Whitby (664)
15-16. The Rise of Monumental Sculpture: The Ruthwell Cross
17. The Bewcastle Cross
18. Scroll Ornament
19-23. The “Carolingian Renaissance” in Britain
19. The Settlement of England under Alfred the Great and his Successors
20. The Carolingian “Renaissance of Classical Art” and English Sculptures
21. The Monastic Reform
22. The Artistic Results of the Monastic Reform
23. A Renaissance of Sculpture following on the Renaissance of Painting
24-27. Predominance of Byzantine Art in the Period of the Crusades
24-26. Manuscripts and Wall Paintings
27. Sculpture in the Period of the Crusades
28. A Classical Interlude before the Rise of Gothic Art: Columns and Capitals
29-31. The Transmission of Ancient Magic and Science
29. Animal Lore, Soothsaying and Medicine
30. The Transmission of Astronomy
31. Botany: The Anglo-Saxon Herbals
32-33. Reflections of Italian Thirteenth-and Fourteenth-Century Art in England
32. The Cosmati at Westminster
33. English Echoes of the Italian Artistic Movement of the Fourteenth Century
34-35. The Revival of Classical Mythology
34. Mythology: The Revival of Pagan Gods and Heroes in Literature
35. Astrology and the Revival of Pagan Gods in Everyday Life
36. Humanistic Script in England
37-41. Artistic Contacts with Italy in the Reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth
37. Henry VIII and his Court as Patrons of Italian Art
38. Holbein as Mediator between South and North
39-40. The Transmission of Southern Art through French and Flemish Channels in the Age of
Elizabeth
41. The Elizabethan Renaissance
 
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