Illuminated Manuscripts and Icons
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Introduction to Manuscript Studies
by Raymond Clemens  Book News Annotation Heavily illustrated with color plates of manuscript pages and details, this oversized volume (9x12") contains an thorough presentation of the study of medieval manuscripts that will be of use to medievalists as well as their students. The process of...
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The Bible of Illuminated Letters: A Treasury of Decorative Calligraphy
by Margaret Morgan and Rosemary Buczek Publisher Comments (back cover) <BR> Illumination--the creation of elaborate, decorated letters and initials--reached its apogee in the monasteries of medieval Europe. Embellished with gold leaf, the illuminated letters of those early scribes seemed to reflect light,...
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Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms
by Michelle Brown Publisher Comments What is a florilegium? What is an incipit? What is batarde script? This book--part of the Museum's popular Looking at series--offers definitions of these and numerous other techniques, processes, and materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts...
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A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII
by Thomas Kren Publisher Comments The Hours of Louis XII is the stunning prayer book that Jean Bourdichon painted for the king of France, mostly likely on the occasion of his coronation in 1498. Bourdichon was the court painter to four successive French kings, including Louis and his...
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Book of Kells
by Ben Mackworth Praed Publisher Comments See 'Book of Hours'....
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The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin
by Bernard Meehan Publisher Comments The Book of Kells is the most spectacular of a group of manuscripts created in Ireland and northern Britain between the seventh and tenth centuries, a period when Irish monasticism was in the vanguard of Christian culture. Its earliest history remains...
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Icons
by Robin Cormack Publisher Comments Byzantine and Russian Orthodox icons are perhaps the most enduring form of religious art ever developed--and one of the most mysterious. This book, featuring the painted panels made for churches and for prayer at home, provides an accessible guide to...
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Masterpieces of Illumination
by Ingo Walther Publisher Comments From The Book of Kells to Boccaccio?s Decameron and from the Vienna Genesis to Dante?s Divine Comedy - see the breathtaking originals of 167 of the greatest classics of all time. This lavishly produced book introduces the reader to the fascinating world...
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The Qur'an Manuscripts in the Al-haram Al-sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem
by Khadar Salameh Publisher Comments Of the many ways in which Muslims through the ages have sought to express their faith, none is more impressive than that of Qu'ran-ic calligraphy and illumination. The legacy of this elaborate art forms a comprehensive yet cohesive whole which has both...
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Illuminations from Book of Hours (British Library)
by Janet Backhouse Publisher Comments Books of Hours survive in their thousands in libraries, museums, and private collections across the western world, reflecting both the personal piety and the fashionable taste of the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe. They owe their name to...
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Master of Mary of Burgundy: A Book of Hours for Englebert of Nassau
by J J G Alexander Synopsis Near the end of the fifteenth century, a Flemish artist known only as the Master of Mary of Burgundy painted one of the last great illuminated manuscripts for Engelbert of Nassau, a member of the courts of rulers of the Netherlands from Charles the Bold...
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French Illuminated Manuscripts: In the J. Paul Getty Museum
by Thomas Kren Publisher Comments French Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum introduces the public to the richness of the J. Paul Getty Museum's holdings in French manuscripts from the ninth to the eighteenth century. This volume includes full-color reproductions of...
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Likeness and Presence : a History of the Image Before the Era of Art (94 Edition)
by Hans Belting Publisher Comments Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its...
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Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work
by Jonathan Alexander Publisher Comments Who were the medieval illuminators? How were their hand-produced books illustrated and decorated? In this beautiful book Jonathan Alexander presents a survey of manuscript illumination throughout Europe from the fourth to the sixteenth century. He...
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Italian Panel Painting in the Duecento and Trecento
by Victor M Schmidt Publisher Comments This wide-ranging book brings together a rich array of current approaches to panel painting of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, a period that has received far less attention than the Renaissance. From the middle of the thirteenth century onward...
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An Armenian Artist in Ottoman Cairo: Yuhanna Al-Armani and His Coptic Icons
by Magdi Guirguis Publisher Comments Yuhanna al-Armani has long been known by historians of Coptic art as an eighteenth-century Armenian icon painter who lived and worked in Ottoman Cairo. Here for the first time is an account of his life that looks beyond his artistic production to place...
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Illuminated Page
by Janet Backhouse Publisher Comments 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...
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Illuminated Manuscript (87 Edition)
by Janet Backhouse Publisher Comments The British Library houses one of the world's great collections of illuminated manuscripts, and Janet Backhouse has drawn on this rich resource to make a selection of outstanding examples that span over 800 years of medieval book production. She begins...
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Tres Riches Heures: Behind the Gothic Masterpiece (Pegasus Library)
by Lillian Schacherl Synopsis This richly illustrated volume examines the history of the manuscript, its authors and its patron, and places them each within a detailed historical context....
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The Icons of Their Bodies
by Henry Maguire Publisher Comments The Byzantines surrounded themselves with their saints invisible but constant companions, who were made visible by dreams, visions, and art. The composition and presentation of this imagined gallery followed a logical structure, a construct that was...
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