Catalogue
Author : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Art
ISBN :
Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts
Author : Thomas Kren
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892364467
Book Description
The Getty Museum’s collection of illuminated manuscripts, featured in this book, comprises masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance art. Dating from the tenth to the sixteenth century, they were produced in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, England, Spain, Poland, and the eastern Mediterranean. Among the highlights are four Ottonian manuscripts, Romanesque treasures from Germany, Italy, and France, an English Gothic Apocalypse, and late medieval manuscripts painted by such masters as Jean Fouquet, Girolamo da Cremona, Simon Marmion, and Joris Hoefnagel. Included are glistening liturgical books, intimate and touching devotional books for private use, books of the Bible, lively histories by Giovanni Boccaccio and Jean Froissart, and a breathtaking Model Book of Calligraphy.
Illuminated Manuscripts
Author : John William Bradley
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN :
Book Description
Fine Books
Author : Alfred William Pollard
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Illustrated books
ISBN :
Book Description
Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London)
Author : Nicolás Bas Martín
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004359524
Book Description
In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas examines the image of Spain in eighteenth-century Europe, and in Paris and London in particular. His material has been scoured from an exhaustive interrogation of the records of the book trade. He refers to booksellers’ catalogues, private collections, auctions, and other sources of information in order to reconstruct the country’s cultural image. Rarely have these sources been searched for Spanish books, and never have they been as exhaustively exploited as they are in Bas’ book. Both England and France were conversant with some very negative ideas about Spain. The Black Legend, dating back to the sixteenth century, condemned Spain as repressive and priest-ridden. Bas shows however, that an alternative, more sympathetic, vision ran parallel with these negative views. His bibliographical approach brings to light the Spanish books that were bought, sold and ultimately read. The impression thus obtained is likely to help us understand not only Spain’s past, but also something of its present.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 1993-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892362286
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal has been published annually since 1974. It contains scholarly articles and shorter notes pertaining to objects in the Museum’s seven curatorial departments: Antiquities, Manuscripts, Paintings, Drawings, Decorative Arts, Sculpture and Works of Art, and Photographs. The Journal includes an illustrated checklist of the Museum’s acquisitions for the precious year, a staff listing, and a statement by the Museum’s director outlining the year’s most important activities. Volume 20 of the J. Paul Getty Museum Journal contains an index to volumes 1 to 20 and includes articles by John Walsh, Carl Brandon Strehlke, Barbara Bohen, Kelly Pask, Suzanne Lewis, Elizabeth Pilliod, Anne Ratzki-Kraatz, Sharon K. Shore, Linda A. Strauss, Brian Considine, Arie Wallert, Richard Rand, And Jacky De Veer-Langezaal.
Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context
Author : Elizabeth Morrison
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2007-01-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892368527
Book Description
A companion to the Getty’s prize-winning exhibition catalogue Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, this volume contains thirteen selected papers presented at two conferences held in conjunction with that exhibition. The first was organized by the Getty Museum, and the second was held at the Courtauld Institute of Art under the sponsorship of the Courtauld Institute and the Royal Academy of Arts. Added here is an essay by Margaret Scott on the role of dress during the reign of Charles the Bold. Texts include Lorne Campbell’s research into Rogier van der Weyden’s work as an illuminator, Nancy Turner’s investigation of materials and methods of painting in Flemish manuscripts, and trenchant commentary by Jonathan Alexander and James Marrow on the state of current research on Flemish illumination. A recurring theme is the structure of collaboration in manuscript production. The essays also reveal an important new patron of manuscript illumination and address the role of illuminated manuscripts at the Burgundian court. A series of biographies of Burgundian scribes is featured.
Beyond Words
Author : Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Collectors and collecting
ISBN : 9781892850263
Book Description
Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, Beyond Words provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. With over 150 manuscripts on display, Manuscripts for Pleasure & Piety at the McMullen Museum focuses on lay readership and the place of books in medieval society. The High Middle Ages witnessed an affirmation of the visual and, with it, empirical experience. There was an explosion of illumination. Various types of images, whether in prayer or professional books, attest to the newfound importance of visual demonstration in matters of faith and science alike."--
The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen
Author : Jennifer Bain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108471358
Book Description
This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.
Clothing Sacred Scriptures
Author : David Ganz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110558602
Book Description
According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.
