Karen E. Overbey & Benjamin C. Tilghman Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/SYAQ1276 We are surrounded by things doing things. Consider the computer on which you are reading, or perhaps from which you just printed, this essay. Listen to it whir and hum,...
Joseph Salvatore Ackley • Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/BFJJ2322 The two sides of the Borghorst reliquary cross, repoussé obverse and engraved reverse, present an appearance of gold, as does the...
Benjamin C. Tilghman • Lawrence University Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/TPMM7414 One of the more vexing problems facing scholars of Anglo-Saxon art is the simple fact that we often do not know precisely what it is that we are dealing...
Genevra Kornbluth • Independent Scholar Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/HOUR8146 It may be useful to begin this essay with a very basic observation. Aside from kinetic sculpture, objects are only as active as viewers allow them to be....
Alexa Sand • Utah State University Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/FBJV9093 Among the many exquisite ivories of the Virgin and Child in the collection of the V&A, the Rattier Virgin, a Parisian work of about 1270, stands out for its delicacy and...
Beatrice Kitzinger • Stanford University Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/WRMN4347 In approximately 909, a Breton named Matian together with his wife Digrenet donated a gospel manuscript to a church called Rosbeith. They intended it should remain...