Our common image of the Middle Ages is of a period when cultural activity in Europe came to a standstill. Van Oostrom challenges this notion by presenting evidence of a lively medieval court culture history. Not only is this a new chapter in Dutch literary and cultural history, but it also provides a new perspective on the larger court culture of ...
Leading French painters in the late medieval period executed miniatures for lavishly illuminated books of hours. In the mid-fifteenth century, Simon de Varie commissioned such a book. Completed in 1455, it included five priceless works by the most eminent French painter of the time, Jean Fouquet, as well as other striking paintings by two of his ...
The New York Public Librarys collection of nearly three hundred Western European illuminated manuscripts is one of the largest in America but also one that is very little known. Dating from the turn of the tenth century well into the period of the Renaissance, these works give vivid testimony to the creative impulses of the often nameless ...
During the 15th century, some of the most glorious manuscript illuminations were produced in the Dutch artistic centers of Utrecht, Haarlem and Delft. Here, scholars from Holland and America present new information on these strikingly beautiful manuscripts. 108 color plates, 20 black-and-white illustrations.
Hand-painted books produced in the Low Countries during the late Middle Ages are dazzlingly inventive, widely admired both in their own time and today. The makers of Flemish illuminated manuscripts experimented, sometimes flamboyantly with all aspects of their design, manipulating elements of their format, layout, script, decoration and ...
Largely unknown and unpublished, many of the manuscripts at Waddesdon are among the best products of Flemish, French and Italian workshops of the later Middle Ages. Some are valuable for their texts, others for the richness of their illumination.
In split pages of Portuguese and English, provides a thorough study, but not a text, of the late-14th-century manuscript probably produced in Holland. Reproduces in color the miniatures that illustrate it and discusses its history, its patronage, the context in which it was produced, its contents,
Illustrated by three different painters, the Hours of Simon de Varie was long thought to be irrevocably dismembered. During the 17th century, it was split into three sections, two went to the Royal Library at The Hague, and one was believed lost until it surfaced in a private collection in 1984, and was then acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum. A ...
In split pages of Portuguese and English, provides a thorough study, but not a text, of the late-14th-century manuscript probably produced in Holland. Reproduces in color the miniatures that illustrate it and discusses its history, its patronage, the context in which it was produced, its contents,
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