DANIEL MITSUI ~ ESSAYS and INFORMATION

This website, currently under construction, gathers various resources, especially transcribed passages from out-of-print or hard-to-find books. I hope eventually to develop it into a more ordered tutorial on sacred art and history; this is a long-term project that has only just begun. Please visit this index frequently to see what has been added.

ENTIRE BOOKS

William Durandus ~ The Sacred Vestments (Book III of the Rationale divinorum officiorum)

Adam of St. Victor ~ Sequences and Hymns

Emile Mâle ~ General Characteristics of Mediæval Iconography

The Bronze Statue of Christ built by St. Bernice

Emile Mâle ~ Hellenistic and Syrian origins of Mediæval Iconography

Denis of Fourna ~ Hermeneia (Manual for Painters)

Hucbald of St. Amand ~ Ecloga de calvis (In Praise of Bald Men)

Theophilus the Priest ~ De diversis artibus (On Divers Arts)

Richard of St. Victor ~ The Temple of Ezekiel

The Anathema of Ernulf of Rochester

Christopher De Hamel ~ The Arrangement of the Bible

Emile Mâle ~ The Allegorical Method

Emile Mâle ~ Saints and the Golden Legend

Otto Georg von Simson ~ Geometry, Music and Gothic Architecture

A.W.N. Pugin ~ On Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts

Alabaster Heads of St. John the Baptist

Emile Mâle ~ Speculum humanæ salvationis and Biblia pauperum

Emile Mâle ~ Ars moriendi (The Art of Dying)

Hugo Spechtshart ~ Songs of the Flagellants

Giovannino De Grassi and the Master E.S. ~ Figurative Alphabets

Fra Girolamo Savonarola

Lotte Brand Philip ~ The Ghent Altarpiece

Emile Mâle ~ The Death of Mediæval Art

Francesco Segala ~ Figurative Mazes

The Bishop-fish and the Mermonk

Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden Christians of Japan)

Montrose J. Moses ~ The Passion Play of Oberammergau

Popish Plot Kitsch

Charles Waterton