The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187Cambridge University Press
Jaroslav Folda
ISBN: 0521453836
price: $110.00 hardcover
The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 examines
the art and architecture produced for the Crusaders in
Syria-Palestine during the first century of their quest to
recapture Jerusalem. Commissioned by kings and queens, patriarchs
and bishops, knights and merchants, who came as pilgrims or
settlers to the Holy Land, it is an art of manuscript
illumination, fresco painting, mosaics, stone sculpture,
metalwork, ivory carving, coins and seals by artists trained in
the Latin West, and the Byzantine and Islamic East. Combining the
stylistic and iconographic traditions of these regions, Crusader
art defies easy categorization: indeed, it is a unique phenomenon
within the spectrum of medieval art.
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