Toledo Cathedral

Building Histories in Medieval Castile

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Tom Nickson, Tom (Courtauld) Nickson

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Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral’s art and architecture.Focusing on the early thirteenth to the late fourteenth centuries, he examines over two hundred years of change and consolidation, tracing the growth of the cathedral in the city as well as the evolution of sacred places within the cathedral itself. He goes on to consider this substantial monument in terms of its location in Toledo, Spain’s most cosmopolitan city in the medieval period. Nickson also addresses the importance and symbolic significance of Toledo’s cathedral to the city and the art and architecture of the medieval Iberian Peninsula, showing how it fits in with broader narratives of change in the arts, culture, and ideology of the late medieval period in Spain and in Mediterranean Europe as a whole.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-11-18
Mått229 x 254 x 36 mm
Vikt1 678 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor324
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271066455
UtmärkelserNominated for Spiro Kostof Book Award 2017

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ContentsList of IllustrationsTablesAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsNote on the TextPart 1IntroductionBuilding HistoriesThe Historical TrajectoryToledan EncountersChapter 1. The CityThe Forma mezquitePart 2Chapter 2. The DesignRodrigo and his ChapterBuilding BigVaultsChapelsChapter 3. Rodrigo’s ProjectSetting OutNew Altars, Old AltarsThe Upper LevelsBuilding the CathedralBuilding ToledoChapter 4. Between Córdoba and ParisDesign and TransmissionInventing vaultsChapter 5. The Exemplary FormArchaeological EvidenceWritten EvidenceStylistic EvidenceFinding the EndPart 3Chapter 6. The Cathedral of MemoryLiturgyThe DeadSacred TopographyThe TreasuryChapter 7. CultsMad about MaryMary MultipliedGreedyguts and AvariceThe Cult of St IldefonsoThe San Ildefonso ChapelSt EugeneThe CrossChapter 8. Urbs regiaThe Royal ChapelsKings and CrossesHistory EmbodiedPicturing HistoryChapter 9. Cathedral and CityThe Puerta del RelojThe West FaçadeThe Puerta del PerdónChapter 10. Art and BeliefTenorio and his PaintersLocating the Choir EnclosurePicturing the PentateuchThe Choir Enclosure and Image Culture in Late Medieval CastileConclusion. Toledo and BeyondGlossaryAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

“This superb volume is unlikely to be read from cover to cover. It is a mosaic of different studies dealing with disparate themes related to the architectural origins of each part of the building. The intending reader needs to dip into it rather than attempt to absorb its contents at a sitting. Perhaps Nickson’s most valuable contribution is to give us not merely an analysis of stonework but a very lucid presentation of the evidence for multiple aspects of identity, and the claims of the cathedral to power and primacy. . . . Tom Nickson gives us an expert analysis, superbly illustrated, in a highly detailed but also well-accomplished piece of research.”—Henry Kamen Times Literary Supplement