Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library

Language: English

Published by Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1983

0712300163 / 9780712300162

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xiv, 210 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Copublished by the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Library. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, October 6, 1983 to January 8, 1984; the Pierpont Morgan Library, January 20 to April 29, 1984; and the British Library, May 25 to September 30, 1984. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly sunned (bold & legible titles). Age toning. *** A beautiful book featuring Flemish, Italian, and French manuscript illuminations of the Renaissance era. *** CONTENTS: I. FLEMISH MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION 1475-1550: Ordinance of Charles the Bold; Breviary from "Rooclooster"; Hours of William Lord Hastings; Huth hours; Breviary of Queen Isabella of Castile; Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; Hours of Joanna of Castile; Book of hours; Genealogy of the Infante Dom Fernando of Portugal; Calendar miniatures. II. ITALIAN MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION 1460-1560: Petrarch, Canzoniere and Trionfi; St. Augustine, Explanatio Psalmorum; Eusebius, Chronica; Giovanni Simonetta, Sforziada; Hours of Bona Sforza (by Mark Evans and Thomas Krens); Hours of Bonaparte Ghislieri; Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues; Lucian, Dialogues; Triumphs of Charles V (by Janet Backhouse). III. FRENCH MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION 1450-1530: House of Etienne Chevalier; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Hours of Henry VII; Pierre Sala, Emblesmes et devises d'amour; Tilliot hours; Francois du Moulin and Albert Pigghe, Les Commentaires de la guerre gallique (by Myra Orth); Book of hours (by Myra Orth). Size: 4to. …

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Title
Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library
Author
Krens, Thomas (Edited by); Backhouse, Janet, et al. (Catalogue and Essays by), with Turner, D. H. (Introduction by)
Publisher
Hudson Hills Press, New York
Publication year
1983
Condition
Near Fine
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0712300163
ISBN 13
9780712300162
Seller catalogs
European::4. Renaissance, European::Dutch, Belgian & Flemish, European::French, European::Italian, Genre & Subject::Religious::Christian, Illustrated Books, Media::Manuscripts, Illuminations, Books, XXX::COLLECTIBLES, XXXL: Jumbo

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