ART HISTORY OF LATVIA I

Volume I: Prehistory and Middle Ages: 9th Millennium BC – 1562

Edited by Elita Grosmane
Contributors: Elita Grosmane, Ieva Ose, Baiba Dumpe, Irita Žeiere, Baiba Vaska, Imants Lancmanis
Riga: Art Academy of Latvia Institute of Art History; Art History Research Foundation, 2024. 528 pp., 799 images

ISBN 9789934882463

Editor in chief of the multi-volume publication “Art History of Latvia”: Eduards Kļaviņš
Editor: Kristiāna Ābele
Designer: Ieva Vīriņa
Translators from Latvian: Stella Pelše, Valdis Bērziņš
Language editor and proof-reader: Iveta Boiko
Project administrator: Daina Lāce

Published simultaneously with the Latvian original.

The volume covers the art and architecture created in the territory of Latvia from prehistory to the end of the Middle Ages. Its editor Elita Grosmane has written about the origins of architecture, urban planning, sacred architecture and fine art, as well as prepared historiography and historical background. Ieva Ose (Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia) wrote chapters on medieval castles and town walls, Baiba Dumpe (National History Museum of Latvia) – on pottery, Irita Žeiere (National History Museum of Latvia) – on textile arts, Baiba Vaska – on metalwork and Imants Lancmanis – on the applied arts of early historical styles.

The volume together with the parallel Latvian edition was supported by the target programme of the State Cultural Capital Foundation “Cultural Events of National Importance”.

Printed by Jelgavas tipogrāfija.