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Book Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Grey Collection of the National Library of South Africa  Cape Town

Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Grey Collection of the National Library of South Africa Cape Town written by National Library of South Africa and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illuminating the Renaissance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Kren
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2003-07-01
  • ISBN : 0892367040
  • Pages : 593 pages

Download or read book Illuminating the Renaissance written by Thomas Kren and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and richly illustrated catalogue focuses on the finest illustrated manuscripts produced in Europe during the great epoch in Flemish illumination. During this aesthetically fertile period – beginning in 1467 with the reign of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold and ending in 1561 with the death of the artist Simon Bening – the art of book painting was raised to a new level of sophistication. Sharing inspiration with the celebrated panel painters of the time, illuminators achieved astonishing innovations in the handling of color, light, texture, and space, creating a naturalistic style that would dominate tastes throughout Europe for nearly a century. Centering on the notable artists of the period – Simon Marmion, the Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy, Gerard David, Gerard Horenbout, Bening, and others – the catalogue examines both devotional and secular manuscript illumination within a broad context: the place of illuminators within the visual arts, including artistic exchange between book painters and panel painters; the role of court patronage and the emergence of personal libraries; and the international appeal of the new Flemish illumination style. Contributors to the catalogue include Maryan W. Ainsworth, curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; independent scholar Catherine Reynolds; and Elizabeth Morrison, assistant curator of manuscripts at the Getty Museum. Illuminating the Renaissance is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Getty Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the British Library to be held at the Getty Museum from June 17 to September 7, 2003, and at the Royal Academy of Arts from November 25, 2003 to February 22, 2004.

Book Analecta Cartusiana

Download or read book Analecta Cartusiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manuscripts  Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany

Download or read book Manuscripts Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany written by Diane E. Booton and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys the production and marketing of non-monastic manuscripts and printed books over 150 years in late medieval Brittany. Through analysis of the physical aspects of Breton manuscripts and books, and of the prices, wages and commissions associated with their manufacture, Diane Booton exposes connections between the tangible cultural artifacts and the society that produced, acquired and valued them.

Book Masterpieces of the J  Paul Getty Museum  Illuminated Manuscripts

Download or read book Masterpieces of the J Paul Getty Museum Illuminated Manuscripts written by Thomas Kren and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Piety in Pieces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn M. Rudy
  • Publisher : Open Book Publishers
  • Release : 2016-09-26
  • ISBN : 1783742364
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Piety in Pieces written by Kathryn M. Rudy and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. These activities accelerated in the fifteenth century. Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer. Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blanks ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts—that they were custom-made luxury items—even when the production had become impersonal. Owners consequently purchased books made for an open market and then personalised them, filling in the blank spaces, and even adding more components later. This would give them an affordable product, but one that still smacked of luxury and met their individual needs. They kept older books in circulation by amending them, attached items to generic books to make them more relevant and valuable, and added new prayers with escalating indulgences as the culture of salvation shifted. Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of parchment). By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. Rudy shows how increased modularisation of book making led to more standardisation but also to more opportunities for personalisation. She asks: What properties did parchment manuscripts have that printed books lacked? What are the interrelationships among technology, efficiency, skill loss and standardisation?

Book A Census of Medieval Manuscripts in South Carolina Collections

Download or read book A Census of Medieval Manuscripts in South Carolina Collections written by Scott Gwara and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fifteenth  to Eighteenth century European Paintings

Download or read book Fifteenth to Eighteenth century European Paintings written by Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman Collection and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1998 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Divine Office for Dodos

Download or read book The Divine Office for Dodos written by Madeline Pecora Nugent and published by . This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book that will help Catholics pray the Liturgy of the Hours completely and correctly

Book Margaret of York  Simon Marmion  and The Visions of Tondal

Download or read book Margaret of York Simon Marmion and The Visions of Tondal written by Thomas Kren and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992-07-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented at a symposium held in 1990 to celebrate the Getty Museum's acquisition of the only known illuminated copy of The Visions of Tondal, twenty essays address the celebrated bibliophilic activity of Margaret of York; the career of Simon Marmion, a favorite artist of the Burgundian court; and The Visions of Tondal in relation to illustrated visions of the Middle Ages. Contributors include Maryan Ainsworth, Wim Blockmans, Walter Cahn, Albert Derolez, Peter Dinzelbacher, Rainald Grosshans, Sandra Hindman, Martin Lowry, Nigel Morgan, and Nigel Palmer.

Book Catalog

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  • Author : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Rare Book Room
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 810 pages

Download or read book Catalog written by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Rare Book Room and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Download or read book Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond written by Benjamin Brand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become widely accepted among musicologists that medieval music is most profitably studied from interdisciplinary perspectives that situate it within broad cultural contexts. The origins of this consensus lie in a decisive reorientation of the field that began approximately four decades ago. For much of the twentieth century, research on medieval music had focused on the discovery and evaluation of musical and theoretical sources. The 1970s and 1980s, by contrast, witnessed calls for broader methodologies and more fully contextual approaches that in turn anticipated the emergence of the so-called 'New Musicology'. The fifteen essays in the present collection explore three interrelated areas of inquiry that proved particularly significant: the liturgy, sources (musical and archival), and musical symbolism. In so doing, these essays not only acknowledge past achievements but also illustrate how this broad, interdisciplinary approach remains a source for scholarly innovation.

Book Athanor

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Athanor written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Incunabula in the University of Illinois Library at Urbana Champaign

Download or read book Incunabula in the University of Illinois Library at Urbana Champaign written by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Robert Lehman Collection

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  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book The Robert Lehman Collection written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, one of a series of sixteen, features the forty-two paintings in The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum, that were collected by Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman. Each is discussed at length in light of recent technical and art-historical research. Among the works here are Petrus Christus's Goldsmith in His Shop (1449), and Hans Memling's Portrait of a Young Man (ca. 1475-80). -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.