Featuring art from the collections of the J

ISBN 978-0-89236-730-6

Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road is out of print

Merry Foresta

European Art of the Fourteenth Century illuminated Featuring art from the collectionsSandra Baragli Fourteenth century Europe was ravaged by famine, war, and, most devastatingly, the Black Plague. These widespread crises inspired a mystical religiosity, which emphasized both ecstatic joy and extreme suffering, producing emotionally charged and often graphic depictions of the Crucifixion and the martyrdoms of the saints. While the great boom of cathedral building that had marked the previous century waned, cathedrals continued to serve