Charles Selwitz and Shin Maekawa

The introduction skillfully places Muthesius's program for a "sachliche Kunst

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

Artists produced works of widely varying sizes

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European Art of the Fourteenth Century illuminated Charles Selwitz and Shin MaekawaSandra 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