The Trees of the Cross Wood as Subject and Medium in the Art of Late Medieval Germany

by Gregory Bryda

New Haven: 2023

213 pages. 124 colour and 34 black and white illustrations. Hardback. 27.9x21.6cms.

An examination of the meanings of wood and greenery - real and depicted - within late Medieval Germany's religious art and cultural consciousness. Four chapters discuss the Cross's imagined lineage, the subsumption of spiritual traditions surrounding Springtime including the Maypole into Christian imagery, the allusion to the healing properties of plants in Grunewald's oeuvre and viticultural motifs on reliquaires and altarpieces. Followed by an epilogue considering the Protestant response. 

Ref: 122631

£60.00

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