Highly Commended in the Best Archaeological Book category of the 2008 British Archaeological Awards.
A former journalist, he is a Director of a private European art foundation and the news editor of the online stained glass magazine, VIDIMUS..
ROGER ROSEWELL was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University.
The plates are accompanied by an authoritative and scholarly text, bringing the imagery and iconography of the Medieval church vividly to life.
Using new technologies and many previously untried techniques, it allows us to visualize these images as the artists originally intended.
This book brings together, often for the first time, many of the very best surviving examples of Medieval church Wall paintings.
Notwithstanding their dissimilarity from other religious art, Wall Paintings were also an integral part of church interiors, enhancing devotional imagery and inspiring faith and commitment in their own right, and providing an artistic setting for the church's sacred rituals and public ceremonies.
They were also monumental, often larger than life-size images for public audiences.
Unlike carvings, or stained glass windows, their support was the structure itself, with the artist's "canvas" the very stone and plaster of the church.
Wall Paintings are a unique art form, complementing, and yet distinctly separate from, other religious imagery in churches.
Highly Commended in the Best Archaeological Book category of the 2008 British Archaeological Awards
