{"product_id":"names-to-remember-medieval-artists-in-word-and-image-ca-700-1200-hardcover","title":"Names to Remember: Medieval Artists in Word and Image, Ca. 700-1200 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeidi C. Gearhart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its beginnings, art history has turned on the power of artists' names. Exhibitions, galleries, and books revolve around them, and artists' personas continue to captivate audiences. Medieval art, however, has long been cast as an exception--a world thought to lack known makers, where piety eclipsed personality and anonymous craftspeople served God rather than fame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eNames to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e takes a new and nuanced look at this longstanding paradigm. Focusing on Europe from ca. 700 to ca. 1200, Heidi C. Gearhart uncovers a surprising abundance of names, stories, and images of artists and examines how they functioned within their cultural and material contexts. Drawing on inscriptions, saints' lives, chronicles, and artworks, she shows that naming an artist was rarely a neutral act: it could invite contemplation, signal virtue, or shape social and spiritual identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy revealing how remembrance--and forgetting--helped define artistry itself, \u003ci\u003eNames to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the place of the artist in medieval culture. Gearhart demonstrates how gender, status, and devotion determined whose names endured and whose were lost, offering a new understanding of authorship and artistic value in the Middle Ages. This study will engage art historians, medievalists, and scholars of gender and cultural memory seeking to understand how the very idea of the artist was formed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHeidi C. Gearhart\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Art History at George Mason University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTheophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the Pennsylvania State University Press, which was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2018 International Center of Medieval Art Book Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 274\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48716932710649,"sku":"9780271101354","price":143.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VXHQ5eM-qd9780271101354.webp?v=1785075869","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/names-to-remember-medieval-artists-in-word-and-image-ca-700-1200-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}