Author: Jean Fouquet
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Category : Books of hours
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Hours of Etienne Chevalier
Author: Jean Fouquet
Publisher:
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Category : Books of hours
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Books of hours
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Hours of Simon de Varie
Author: James H. Marrow
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892362844
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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 contemporaries. In the seventeenth century, Simon de Varie's book was divided into three sections and sold as separate volumes. Two of these volumes are today in the Royal Library in The Hague. The third volume--thought lost until 1984, when it surfaced in a private collection and was subsequently acquired by the Getty Museum--contains the first miniatures by Jean Fouquet to have been discovered in eighty years. This beautiful book will reproduce in color all of the miniatures and historiated initials in the original manuscript, along with selected text pages with secondary decoration. Comparative illustrations also accompany the two essays in the volume. Marrow's text addresses the role of books of hours in late medieval culture; the contents and form of de Varie's Hours; and the relationship of the miniatures by Fouquet to the rest of the artist's oeuvre. In a related essay, Francois Avril discusses the position of Simon de Varie and his family in mid-fifteenth-century France. The publication of The Hours of Simon de Varie adds to the Getty's impressive list of publications on illuminated manuscripts begun in 1990 and including the widely acclaimed facsimile Mira calligraphiae monumenta.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892362844
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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 contemporaries. In the seventeenth century, Simon de Varie's book was divided into three sections and sold as separate volumes. Two of these volumes are today in the Royal Library in The Hague. The third volume--thought lost until 1984, when it surfaced in a private collection and was subsequently acquired by the Getty Museum--contains the first miniatures by Jean Fouquet to have been discovered in eighty years. This beautiful book will reproduce in color all of the miniatures and historiated initials in the original manuscript, along with selected text pages with secondary decoration. Comparative illustrations also accompany the two essays in the volume. Marrow's text addresses the role of books of hours in late medieval culture; the contents and form of de Varie's Hours; and the relationship of the miniatures by Fouquet to the rest of the artist's oeuvre. In a related essay, Francois Avril discusses the position of Simon de Varie and his family in mid-fifteenth-century France. The publication of The Hours of Simon de Varie adds to the Getty's impressive list of publications on illuminated manuscripts begun in 1990 and including the widely acclaimed facsimile Mira calligraphiae monumenta.
The Hours of Etienne Chevalier
Author: Jean Fouquet
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France
Author: Erik Inglis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300134438
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Jean Fouquet was France's most important 15th-century artist, painting for the courts of Charles VII and Louis XI. His art synthesized the realistic style of Flemish arts like van Eyck with the monumentality of Florentines like Masaccio. Fouquet's work had a powerful appeal, shaping the next two generations of painters and introducing to the French a taste for Italian art. The first survey of Fouquet's work in English in nearly sixty years, this captivating book offers a major advance in scholarship about the artist and his far-reaching impact. Erik Inglis links Fouquet's style, iconography, and audience to explain how his art helped define French identity, a project of great importance for anxious courtiers in the wake of the Hundred Years War. Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France provides a new lens for looking at the century that saw the greatest changes in French art prior to Impressionism"--Provided by publisher.
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ISBN: 9780300134438
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Jean Fouquet was France's most important 15th-century artist, painting for the courts of Charles VII and Louis XI. His art synthesized the realistic style of Flemish arts like van Eyck with the monumentality of Florentines like Masaccio. Fouquet's work had a powerful appeal, shaping the next two generations of painters and introducing to the French a taste for Italian art. The first survey of Fouquet's work in English in nearly sixty years, this captivating book offers a major advance in scholarship about the artist and his far-reaching impact. Erik Inglis links Fouquet's style, iconography, and audience to explain how his art helped define French identity, a project of great importance for anxious courtiers in the wake of the Hundred Years War. Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France provides a new lens for looking at the century that saw the greatest changes in French art prior to Impressionism"--Provided by publisher.
A Treasury of Hours
Author: Fanny Faÿ-Sallois
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368198
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"Selected from precious fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscripts-many of which have never before been published, these pages from books of hours are arranged and annotated as a guide to understanding both the prayers and the illustrations the books contain. They are also an invitation to readers young and old to dream, to savor, and to immerse themselves in their ardor and mystery and to take delight in some of the most beautiful works of European art."--Back of book.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368198
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"Selected from precious fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscripts-many of which have never before been published, these pages from books of hours are arranged and annotated as a guide to understanding both the prayers and the illustrations the books contain. They are also an invitation to readers young and old to dream, to savor, and to immerse themselves in their ardor and mystery and to take delight in some of the most beautiful works of European art."--Back of book.
Falling Angels
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen's death reverberates through a changing nation. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives—wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger's son—Falling Angels is graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" (The New York Times Book Review).
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen's death reverberates through a changing nation. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives—wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger's son—Falling Angels is graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" (The New York Times Book Review).
Of Six Mediaeval Women
Author: Alice Kemp-Welch
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Category : Formal gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Formal gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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The Virgin Blue
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007108273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
The compelling story of two women, born centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007108273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
The compelling story of two women, born centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them.
The Discarded Image
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107604702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107604702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.
Les heures d'Étienne Chevalier par Jean Fouquet
Author: Jean Fouquet
Publisher: Somogy éditions d'art
ISBN:
Category : Books of hours
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale (1822-1897), fils du roi Louis-Philippe, a été l'un des plus grands bibliophiles de son temps. En 1830, il reçoit en héritage les biens du dernier prince de Bourbon-Condé. Il devient ainsi propriétaire du château de Chantilly et d'une collection de manuscrits dont l'origine remonte aux Montmorency. Exilé en Angleterre à partir de 1848, il se consacre à enrichir ses collections et réunit avec passion, durant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, un ensemble de livres imprimés et de manuscrits exceptionnels par leurs terres, leurs enluminures et leurs reliures. De retour en France après 1871, il reconstruit le château de Chantilly, y aménage ses galeries de peintures et son Cabinet des livres. En 1886, il lègue le domaine de Chantilly à l'Institut de France, qui ouvre le musée Condé au public après la mort du prince.
Publisher: Somogy éditions d'art
ISBN:
Category : Books of hours
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale (1822-1897), fils du roi Louis-Philippe, a été l'un des plus grands bibliophiles de son temps. En 1830, il reçoit en héritage les biens du dernier prince de Bourbon-Condé. Il devient ainsi propriétaire du château de Chantilly et d'une collection de manuscrits dont l'origine remonte aux Montmorency. Exilé en Angleterre à partir de 1848, il se consacre à enrichir ses collections et réunit avec passion, durant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, un ensemble de livres imprimés et de manuscrits exceptionnels par leurs terres, leurs enluminures et leurs reliures. De retour en France après 1871, il reconstruit le château de Chantilly, y aménage ses galeries de peintures et son Cabinet des livres. En 1886, il lègue le domaine de Chantilly à l'Institut de France, qui ouvre le musée Condé au public après la mort du prince.