The Art of Illumination

The Art of Illumination PDF Author: Timothy Husband
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392945
Category : Belles heures of Jean of France, Duke of Berry
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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The Limbourg Brothers

The Limbourg Brothers PDF Author: Rob Dückers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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The Limbourg Brothers

The Limbourg Brothers PDF Author: Rob Dückers
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004175121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
Although the Nijmegen artists Herman, Paul and Jean de Limbourg were barely thirty years old when they suddenly died in 1416, they already had a formidable career behind them. Now, almost six hundred years after their creation, the colourful and highly refined miniatures in the "Belles Heures" and "Tr s Riches Heures du Duc de Berry" still speak vividly to our imagination. In 2005 Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen presented the exhibition The Limbourg Brothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court (1400-1416) . This was the first time that original miniatures from four manuscripts by the Limbourg brothers were shown in the Netherlands. The exhibition formed an excellent opportunity to invite prominent scholars to share their views on the art of the Limbourg brothers during a two-day conference. This publication presents in written form the conference papers delivered by some of the leading scholars in the field. In that respect, the volume acts as an addendum to the catalogue. Contributors are Hanneke van Asperen, Gregory T. Clark, Herman Th. Colenbrander, Rob D ckers, Eberhard K nig, Margaret Lawson, Stephen Perkinson, Pieter Roelofs and Victor M. Schmidt.

French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry

French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry PDF Author: Millard Meiss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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The Spitz Master

The Spitz Master PDF Author: Gregory Clark
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367121
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Clark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color.

The Renaissance Nude

The Renaissance Nude PDF Author: Thomas Kren
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 160606584X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.

Medieval Illuminations

Medieval Illuminations PDF Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN: 9780811811163
Category : Christmas decorations
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Five ornaments adapted from the Belles heures of Jean are reproduced in this book. They are designed to be removed and hung. After the holidays the ornaments are pressed back into the book to save them.

The Limbourg Brothers

The Limbourg Brothers PDF Author: Rob Dückers
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047428579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Although the Nijmegen artists Herman, Paul and Jean de Limbourg were barely thirty years old when they suddenly died in 1416, they already had a formidable career behind them. Now, almost six hundred years after their creation, the colourful and highly refined miniatures in the Belles Heures and Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry still speak vividly to our imagination. In 2005 Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen presented the exhibition ‘The Limbourg Brothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court (1400-1416)’. This was the first time that original miniatures from four manuscripts by the Limbourg brothers were shown in the Netherlands. The exhibition formed an excellent opportunity to invite prominent scholars to share their views on the art of the Limbourg brothers during a two-day conference. This publication presents in written form the conference papers delivered by some of the leading scholars in the field. In that respect, the volume acts as an addendum to the catalogue. Contributors are Hanneke van Asperen, Gregory T. Clark, Herman Th. Colenbrander, Rob Dückers, Eberhard König, Margaret Lawson, Stephen Perkinson, Pieter Roelofs and Victor M. Schmidt.

Orientalism and the Jews

Orientalism and the Jews PDF Author: Ivan Davidson Kalmar
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584654117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
A fascinating analysis of how Jews fit into scholarly debates about Orientalism.

The Likeness of the King

The Likeness of the King PDF Author: Stephen Perkinson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226658791
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Anyone who has strolled through the halls of a museum knows that portraits occupy a central place in the history of art. But did portraits, as such, exist in the medieval era? Stephen Perkinson's "The likeness of the king" challenges the canonical account of the invention of modern portrait practices, offering a case against the tendency of recent scholarship to identify likenesses of historical personages as "the first modern portraits". Focusing on the Valois court of France, he argues that local practice prompted shifts in the late medieval understanding of how images could represent individuals and prompted artists and patrons to deploy likeness in a variety of ways.