Compostela and Europe : the story of Diego Gelmirez / [edited by S.A. de Xestion do Plan Xacobeo ; scientific direction, Manuel Castineiras ; scientific coordination, Victoriano Nodar, Rosa Vazquez]

Catedral de Santiago de Compostela - Exhibition

2010, First Edition. Milano : Skira. An exceptional copy; fine in the publisher's printed boards. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 430 pages; Physical description; 430 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map, plans ; 29 cm. Catalogue of an itinerant exhibition organised by S.A. de Xestion do Plan Xacobeo and held at the Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine-musee des monuments francais, Paris, 16 March-16 May 2010, at the Braccio di Carlo Magno, Vatican City, 3 June-1 Aug. 2010, and at the Monasterio de San Martin~o Pinario, Santiago de Compostella, 15 Aug.-15 Oct. 2010. At head of title: Xunta de Galicia; Xacobeo 2010 Galicia. Includes bibliography (p. 405-428). Contents; The reason for a traveling exhibition : Diego Gelmirez, genius and traveling spirit of Romanesque / Manuel Castineiras -- Compostela and Europe. Didacus Gelmirius, patron of the arts : Compostela's long journey : from the periphery to the center of Romanesque art / Manuel Castineiras -- Compostela. Culture and learning in Compostela and the Way of Saint James / Adeline Rucquoi. The basilica in Compostela and the way of pilgrimage / John Williams. Codex Calixtinus : the book of the Church of Compostela / Klaus Herbers. Illustration in the Codex Calixtinus / Alison Stones. Gelmirez's "pious robbery" / Jose Maria Diaz Fernandez. The survival and destruction of Gelmirez's altar in the modern age / Miguel Tain Guzman. A granite shaft possibly from a column on the paradise front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela / Francisco Singul. The fortune of Diego Gelmirez in the cultural tradition of Galician nationalism / Ramon Villares -- Europe. The Gregorian reform and origins of Romanesque / Arturo Carlo Quintavalle. The Basilica of Saint-Sernin at Toulouse and the question of the carved tympani / Quitterie Cazes. The art of the Pilgrims' Road to Santiago and Cluny / Jose Luis Senra Gabriel y Galan. Nostos : Ulysses, Compostela and the ineluctable modality of the visible / Francisco Prado-Vilar. Gelmirez and the cult of Saint James in Italy / Rosa Vazquez. Diego Gelmirez's journey through the collections of the Musee des monuments francais, Paris / Jean-Marc Hofman, Annaig Chatain -- Catalog of works. Santiago and the adventure of the way of pilgrimage. Gelmirez in France. Gelmirez in Italy. Gelmirez in Portugal. The written memory of a genius -- Appendix. Subjects; Gelmirez, Diego d. 1140 - Exhibitions. James the Greater, Saint - Cult - Exhibitions. Gelmirez, Diego approximately 1069-1140 - Art patronage - Exhibitions. Item #226277

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