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The magnificent roof bosses of Norwich Cathedral are one of the great hidden glories of medieval art. There are more than one thousand of these delightfully carved and painted keystones in the high stone vaulting, dating from 1300 to 1515 and measuring between eight and twenty-four inches wide. The vast majority are figure carvings uniquely linked together in storytelling patterns, reflecting a variety of pagan, Christian, and folk subjects.
Situated some eighty feet up from the floor of the cathedral, these ornaments are too distant to have been fully appreciated by worshippers over the centuries; by the same token, their inaccessibility has protected them from vandalism.
This book reproduces the most striking and interesting examples, selected from the hundreds of exquisite color photographs taken by the distinguished photographer Julia Hedgecoe, under the auspices of the cathedral. They are introduced and fully described in a lively text by one of Norwich's foremost medieval historians, Martial Rose.
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Bible, Bosses (Architecture), Buildings, structures, Christian art and symbolism, Illustrations, Norwich Cathedral (Norwich, England), Polychromy, Stone carving, Fiction, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), CathedralsPlaces
England, Norwich, Norwich (England)Times
Medieval, 500-1500Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Stories in stone: the medieval roof carvings of Norwich Cathedral
1997, Herbert Press, a division of A & C Black
in English
1871569869 9781871569865
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Stories in stone: the medieval roof carvings of Norwich Cathedral
1997, Thames and Hudson
in English
0500279373 9780500279373
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-142) and index.
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