Artists produced works of widely varying sizes

the result is an entirely new insight into their production and manufacture

and Charissa Bremer-David and Jeffrey Weaver are curator and associate curator

Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road is out of print

European Art of the Fourteenth Century illuminated Artists produced works of widelySandra Baragli Fourteenth century Europe was ravaged by famine, war, and, most devastatingly, the Black Plague. These widespread crises inspired a mystical religiosity, which emphasized both ecstatic joy and extreme suffering, producing emotionally charged and often graphic depictions of the Crucifixion and the martyrdoms of the saints. While the great boom of cathedral building that had marked the previous century waned, cathedrals continued to serve