Author: Jean Fouquet
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Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Jean Fouquet
Publisher: Somogy éditions d'art
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Category : Books of hours
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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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.

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.

Author: Jean Fouquet
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Category : Books of hours
Languages : fr
Pages : 70

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Author: Jean Fouquet
Publisher: Somogy éditions d'art
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Considered one of the incomparable artistic geniuses of the fifteenth century, Jean Fouquet is best known for The Hours of Etienne Chevalier, the book of illuminated miniatures that represents the high point of his career--and a wonder of Western art. The complete manuscript is estimated to date from the 1450s, and remained in the family of the treasurer of France, Etienne Chevalier, for almost two centuries. Then, in the eighteenth century, the leaves were separated and dispersed. The forty leaves in the Musee Conde were acquired by the duc d'Aumale in 1891, and seven others are divided among the Meropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Library in London and the Louvre in Paris. This volume, which accompanies an exhibition in the Santuario at the Musee Conde in Chantilly, reproduced 40 of the miniatures in their actual dimensions, shown in the chronology established by the most recent research.

Author: Germain Bazin
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Category : Books of hours
Languages : fr
Pages : 152

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Author: Fanny Faÿ-Sallois
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368198
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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"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.

Author: Laura Weigert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316412121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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This book revives what was unique, strange and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Laura Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts and practices to explore this tradition of late medieval performance located not in 'theaters' but in churches, courts, and city streets and squares. By stressing the theatricality rather than the realism of fifteenth-century visual culture and the spectacular rather than the devotional nature of its effects, she offers a new way of thinking about late medieval representation and spectatorship. She shows how images that ostensibly document medieval performance instead revise its characteristic features to conform to a playgoing experience that was associated with classical antiquity. This retrospective vision of the late medieval performance tradition contributed to its demise in sixteenth-century France and promoted assumptions about medieval theater that continue to inform the contemporary disciplines of art and theater history.

Author: Nicole Reynaud
Publisher: Faton
ISBN:
Category : Books of hours
Languages : fr
Pages : 292

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Author: Eva Frojmovic
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351867237
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of medieval art and visualities has, in general, remained Eurocentric in its canon and conservative in its approaches. 'Postcolonising', as the eleven essays in this volume show, entails active intervention into the field of medieval art history and visual studies through a theoretical reframing of research. This approach poses and elicits new research questions, and tests how concepts current in postcolonial studies - such as diaspora and migration, under-represented artistic cultures, accented art making, displacement, intercultural versus transcultural, hybridity, presence/absence - can help medievalists to reinvigorate the study of art and visuality. Postcolonial concepts are deployed in order to redraft the canon of medieval art, thereby seeking to build bridges between medievalist and modernist communities of scholars. Among the varied topics explored in the volume are the appropriation of Roman iconography by early medieval Scandinavian metalworkers, multilingualism and materiality in Anglo-Saxon culture, the circulation and display of Islamic secular ceramics on Pisan churches, cultural negotiation by Jewish minorities in Central Europe and the Iberian peninsula, Holy Land maps and medieval imaginative geography, and the uses of Thomas Becket in the colonial imaginary of the Plantagenet court.