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The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II
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Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg, Thea Vignau Wilberg
The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the Mira colligrophioe monumenta, a flamboyant demonstration of two arts-calligraphy and miniature painting. The project began when Rudolf's predecessor commissioned the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay to create a model book of calligraphy. A preeminent scribe, Bocskay ...
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Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450
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Laurence B Kanter, New York Metropolitan Museum Of Ar
This volume, created by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, shows Florentine miniatures produced between 1300 and 1450. A group of bound manuscripts and single leaves from disassembled books, is joined with panel paintings, drawings, embroideries, and reverse paintings on glass.
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Illuminated Page
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Janet Backhouse
Illuminated Manuscripts are Among the Richest and Most Revealing relics of the pre-print Western world, and are central to our understanding of medieval social and cultural history. The British Library boasts the world's finest collection of medieval manuscripts, and in this new and lavishly illustrated survey, Janet Backhouse draws on these ...
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Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library
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Thomas Kren, Library British
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Western European Illuminated Manuscripts
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Tamara Voronova (Editor), Andrei Streligov (Editor)
The National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg inherited the magnificent collection of medieval and Renaissance illustrated manuscripts originally in the imperial Library. Treasures from the National Library are reproduced in this unique volume, in all the brilliance of their original colour. The collection includes missals and sacred texts, and ...
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An abecedarium : illuminated alphabets from the court of the Emperor Rudolf II
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Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg
"Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta" is a flamboyant demonstration of two arts - calligraphy and miniature painting - and was produced in the court of Emperor Rudolf II. This is the second half which comprises two alphabets drawn and illuminated by miniaturist Joris Hoefnagel. One consists of Roman capital letters (majuscules), the other, Gothic lower ...
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Italian Renaissance illuminations
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J. J. G. Alexander
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Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages
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Henry Noel Humphreys, Owen Jones
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Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library
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Mark Evans, Thomas Kren, Pierpont Morgan Library
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The Farnese Hours: The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
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Giulio Clovio
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Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context: Recent Research
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Elizabeth Morrison (Editor), Thomas Kren (Editor)
A companion to the prize-winning exhibition catalogue "Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe", edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick (2003), this volume contains thirteen selected papers presented at the two conferences held in conjunction with the exhibition. The first was organized by the Getty ...
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The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420-1530, from American Collections
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John Plummer
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Western Illuminated Manuscripts
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Tamara Voronova, Andrei Streligov
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Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum
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Thomas Kren, Kurt Barstow
The Getty Museum inaugurates a new series of affordable publications that introduce the public to the richness of its holdings in illuminated manuscripts. The first in the series features Italian manuscript illumination from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries. This volume showcases full-colour reproductions of masterpieces by Niccolo da Bologna, ...
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Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Laurence B. Kanter
A survey of the previously under-appreciated art of the illuminated manuscript of early Renaissance Florence. From an exbibition at the Metropolitian Museum in 1994-95.
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Books of Hours
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Janet Backhouse
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Die flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts : Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening
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Friedrich Winkler
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The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo
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Lorenzo Candelaria
The Rosary Cantoral is a rare and beautifully decorated manuscript of Latin plainchant for the Catholic Mass compiled in Toledo, Spain, around the year 1500. In an engaging and richly interdisciplinary essay, Lorenzo Candelaria approaches the Rosary Cantoral as a cultural artifact, unlocking the secrets behind its images and music to reveal the ...
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Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts: 1350-1522, in the Houghton Library
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Houghton Library, Roger S Wieck
Although the advent of the printing press heralded the end of the manuscript, the illuminated text still flourished through the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Many such manuscripts are works of extraordinary expressive power and have much to tell about the history of the graphic arts as well. Roger Wieck's catalogue carefully describes the ...
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The Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations
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William M Voelke, William M Voelkle, Maria F Saffiotti (Editor)
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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery: France, 875-1420
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Lilian M Randall, Lillian M Randall, Walters Art Gallery
In the second of four volumes that will catalog these holdings at the Walters, the curator of the collection describes in detail 113 manuscripts produced in France from the 1420s to 1540.
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Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters: Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse
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Michelle Brown
This collection of essays published in honour of Janet Blackhouse, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at The British Library who retired in 1998 after a 35-year at the British Museum and Library. Twenty scholars and collegues have contributed essays reflecting Janet Blackhouse's own research interests, particularly in the later Middle Ages and ...
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Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum
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Georg Bocskay, Thea Vignau-Wilberg (Editor), Lee Hendrix (Editor)
In 1561-62, Georg Bocskay, imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, inscribed the Mira calligraphiae monumenta as a testament to his preeminence among scribes. He assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historical scripts, which nearly thirty years later were further embellished by Joris Hoefnagel, Europe's last great ...
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San Lorenzo, la chiesa dei Medici, la biblioteca di Michelangelo : con le immagini della mostra Umanesimo e padri della Chiesa
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Alberto Manodori, le istituzioni culturali e l'editoria Italy. Ufficio centrale per i beni librari, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
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Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525 : un primo censimento
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Annarosa Garzelli, Albinia Catherine De la Mare
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