Art

A Brief History of Monumental Brasses

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History of monumental brasses. Other pages on the site discuss clothing and armour depicted on brass monuments. Site sells equipment for brass rubbing.

A history of ancient sculpture

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Internet Archive copy of "A history of ancient sculpture" by Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1883).
 
Deals with Eygptian, Greek, Roman, and Middle Eastern sculpture.
 
 

A manual of costume as illustrated by monumental brasses ([1907])

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The aim of this book is to give, as far as possible, a straight-forward account of the costume to be found represented on that large class of sepulchral memorials known as Monumental Brasses.
 
This is a link to the Internet Archive's collection in PDF, Text, and Kindle formats.
 
 

British medieval architecture

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The aim of this site is to aid research into British medieval architecture, especially Late-Medieval carpentry.

Centre André Chastel

The Andre Chastell Centre is dedicated to French art history, including sculpture, architecture, and stained glass.

Chartres Cathedral of Notre-Dame

This website provides access to a comprehensive collection of images and detailed descriptions of Chartres Cathedral.

Children and Monuments from the late medieval period to the 17th century.

Monuments or memorials to children in English churches were extremely rare until the late 18th and early 19th century. In the 16th century one can find the occassional child tomb amongst the aristocracy, such as that of the The Noble Impe at St Mary's Warwick, but otherwise children do not appear to have warranted memorials in their own right.

Church Monument Society

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Founded in 1979 to promote the appreciation, study and conservation of church monuments both in the UK and abroad.

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture

The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS) is a project to identify, record and publish in a consistent format, the earliest English sculpture dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries.

Corpus of Romanesque sculpture in Britain and Ireland

An archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture. Romanesque sculpture marks a high point of artistic production in Britain and Ireland, corresponding to the boom in high-quality building that followed the Norman Conquest in 1066, and reflecting a new set of links with mainland Europe.

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