Middle Ages. Secular art of the XIII-XV. Akimova T.A.

The book of art critic Tatyana Akimova introduces the reader to the works of secular art of Western Europe of the XIII-XV centuries, representing a huge scale, but little-known material: these are wall paintings and book miniatures, trellises, embroidery, jewelry, household items and costume-caskets , signs for writing, cases of mirrors, crests, brooches made of ivory, metal and wood. Artistic monuments, which was so rich in the time of beautiful ladies and noble knights who highly appreciated beauty and luxury are considered in the thematic diversity in which they once existed in residential interiors: they came to life, finding their visible, heroes of knightly novels, The plots of Celtic and German legends, poetic allegories of courteous love.

Interpretation of topics and motives of the decorative decoration of castles and urban residences of the nobility will help the reader better understand the life of people of that era, their ideas about such important categories of human being as love, life, time, time, extending beyond the limits as church and ancient tradition. A richly illustrated publication is addressed to specialists (historians, culturalists, art critics), as well as a wide circle of readers interested in the culture of the Middle Ages.