In this book; Conrad Rudolph studies and reconstructs Hugh of Saint Victors forty-two-page written work; The Mystic Ark; which describes the medieval painting of the same name. In medieval written sources; works of art are not often referred to; let alone described in any detail. Almost completely ignored by art historians because of the immense difficulty of its text; Hugh of Saint Victors Mystic Ark (c.1125ndash;30) is among the most unusual sources we have for an understanding of medieval artistic culture. Depicting all time; all space; all matter; all human history and all spiritual striving; this highly polemical painting deals with a series of cultural issues crucial in the education of societys elite during one of the great periods of intellectual change in Western history.
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