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Published by Riggisberg : Abegg-Stiftung, 2017
ISBN 10: 3905014645ISBN 13: 9783905014648
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: New. 236 pages, 101 illus., 26 plates, Paperbound, 23 x 31 cm. Riggisberger Berichte 22 | With contributions by L. Ellis, R. Falkenburg, E. M. Kavaler, I. Reesing, F. Scholten, J. C. Smith, A. Suda, I. M. Veldman, E. Wetter. 'The authors present prayer-nuts and small-scale boxwood carvings of different collections and highlight their function as private devotional objects and collector s items. They discuss prints used as models for Late Gothic and Early Renaissance miniature carvings and sculptures and present new material about the historical perception of such objects. This book contains the papers of a colloquium organised by the Abegg-Stiftung in 2012.'.
Published by Abegg-Stift. Verlag Abegg-Stiftung, 2017
ISBN 10: 3905014645ISBN 13: 9783905014648
Seller: BUCHSERVICE / ANTIQUARIAT Lars Lutzer, Wahlstedt, Germany
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Softcover. Condition: gut. 2017. A prayer nut is a small-scale boxwood carving containing very detailed depictions of events taken from the lives of biblical figures and saints. These carvings served as instruments of individual piety, that is, for private devotion; they were especially appreciated when located in a surrounding environment, where the knowledgeable viewing of art became a value in itself. It was in the early modern Kunstkammer of the sixteenth and seventeenth century that prayer nuts would have been studied and admired. The publication contains the papers of a colloquium held in 2012 on the occasion of the discovery of a manuscript,with a meticulous seventeenth-century description of a prayer nut that can be identified with the Magdalen prayer nut in the Abegg-Stiftung. The twenty-six colour plates of the prayer nut and the manuscript invite the reader to study not only a master-piece of miniature carving, but also to comprehend an exceptional source of art historiography in the Northern Renaissance. Mitglied der Redaktion: Henry B. Hohmann Verlagsort Riggisberg Sprache englisch Maße 230 x 310 mm Einbandart Englisch Broschur Kunst Musik Theater Kunstgeschichte Kunststile Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Betnuss Kunstkammer Niederlande Prayer Nut Renaissance Schnitzerei ISBN-10 3-905014-64-5 / 3905014645 ISBN-13 978-3-905014-64-8 / 9783905014648 Prayer Nuts, Private Devotion, and Early Modern Art Collecting Riggisberger Berichte 22 Wetter, Evelin; Scholten, Frits; Hohmann, Henry B.; Ellis, Lisa; Falkenburg, Reindert; Kavaler, Evan Matt; Reesing, Ingmar; Chipps Smith, Jeffrey; Suda, Alexandra and Veldman, Ilja M. Evelin Wetter (Herausgeber, Autor), Frits Scholten (Herausgeber, Autor), Henry B. Hohmann (Herausgeber), Lisa Ellis (Autor), Reindert Falkenburg (Autor), Evan Matt Kavaler (Autor), Ingmar Reesing (Autor), Chipps Smith, Jeffrey (Autor), Alexandra Suda (Autor), Ilja M. Veldman (Autor) Abegg-Stift. Verlag Abegg-Stiftung In englischer Sprache. 236 pages. 230 x 310 mm.