French Books of Hours

French Books of Hours PDF Author: Virginia Reinburg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107007216
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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How was the Book of Hours created and used as a book and what did it mean to its owners?

French Books of Hours

French Books of Hours PDF Author: Virginia Reinburg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107007216
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Book Description
How was the Book of Hours created and used as a book and what did it mean to its owners?

Catalogue of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: Italy and part of France

Catalogue of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: Italy and part of France PDF Author: John Pierpont Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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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 Hours of Simon de Varie

The Hours of Simon de Varie PDF Author: James H. Marrow
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892362844
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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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 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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Time Sanctified

Time Sanctified PDF Author: Roger S. Wieck
Publisher: George Braziller
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Mirror of the Medieval World

Mirror of the Medieval World PDF Author: Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870997858
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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The publication of this comprehensive catalogue celebrates the distinguished career of William D. Wixom at the Metropolitan. Highlighted in these pages are more than three hundred purchases and gifts, the great majority of which have been on view but many of which have remained unpublished until now. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Books of Hours Reconsidered

Books of Hours Reconsidered PDF Author: Sandra Hindman
Publisher: Harvey Miller
ISBN: 9781905375943
Category : Books of hours
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For over three hunderd years, more Books of Hours were made than any other type of book, even the Bible. From c. 1225, when the first Books of Hours began to appear, to 1571, when during the Counter-Reformation Pope Pius V prohibited the use of all existing Books of Hours, nearly every European family of a certain means owned a Book of Hours. Books of Hours Reconsidered presents recent research on this medieval bestseller in twenty-one essays written by international scholars. The scholarship in this volume helps instill Books of Hours with new life and give them new meaning at a moment when interest in Books of Hours is on the rise.

Picturing Piety

Picturing Piety PDF Author: Roger S. Wieck
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Two dozen Books of Hours mostly from the 15th and 16th centuries, with examples from France, the Netherlands and Belgium, are presented chronologically. Many are previously unknown and unpublished.

The Hours of Marie De' Medici

The Hours of Marie De' Medici PDF Author: Catholic Church
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851244072
Category : Books of hours
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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At the turn of the fifteenth century, private devotionals became a speciality of the renowned Ghent-Bruges illuminators. Wealthy patrons who commissioned work from these artists often spared no expense in the presentation of their personal prayer books, or 'books of hours', from detailed decoration to luxurious bindings and embroidery. This enchanting illuminated manuscript was painted by the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary (known as the David Master), one of the renowned Flemish illuminators in the sixteenth century. Every page of the manuscript is exquisitely decorated. Fine architectural interiors, gorgeous landscapes and detailed city scenes, each one depicting a narrative, form the subjects of three full-size illuminations and forty-two full-page miniatures. There are floral borders on a gold ground or historiated borders in the Flemish and Italian style on every page. It is one of the finest examples of medieval illumination in a personal prayer book and the most copiously illustrated work of the David Master to survive. The manuscript owes its name to the French Queen, Marie de' Medici, widow of King Henri IV. For a time she went into exile in Brussels, where she is thought to have acquired the manuscript before moving again to Cologne. An inscription in English states that she left the book of hours in this city, and it is here that an English manuscript collector, Francis Douce, may have acquired the book and eventually donated it to the Bodleian Library. Together with a scholarly introduction that gives an overview of Flemish illumination and examines each of the illustrations in detail, this full-colour facsimile limited edition, bound in linen, faithfully reproduces all 176 pages of the original manuscript. It is beautifully presented in a slipcase with a photographic reproduction of the original, delicately embroidered velvet binding.