Crusader Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre

This book tells the story of the Architecture and the Figural Art produced for the Crusaders after the battle of Hattin and the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, during the one hundred years that Acre was the capital of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1191–1291. It is an art sponsored by kings and queens, patriarchs and bishops, clergy, monks, friars, knights and soldiers, aristocrats and merchants, all men and women of means, who came as pilgrims, Crusaders, settlers, and men of commerce to the Holy Land. The artists are Franks and Italians born and/or resident in the Holy Land, Westerners who traveled to the Latin East, Eastern Christians, and even Muslims, who worked for Crusader patrons.

• This is the first book of figural art and architecture of the Crusades in the thirteenth century in English • Discussion is accompanied by many illustrations and CD-ROM • This book includes a comprehensive survey of all known icon paintings and documentation of illustrated manuscripts