The Rothschilds And Their Collections Of Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : Christopher De Hamel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015062596021

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The Rothschilds and Their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts by Christopher De Hamel Pdf

The art collections of the Rothschilds were legendary for their extravagance and refinement. This is the first history of the Rothschilds as bibliophiles and, especially, as collectors of medieval illuminated manuscripts. It describes the extraordinary collections of the Rothschilds, and the movement of these supremely important manuscripts across the private libraries of Europe. In 1940 the Rothschilds' collections in Paris were looted by the Nazis, and the tale pursues the fate of the stolen manuscripts, some of them still missing. The inquiry traces literally hundreds of illuminated manuscripts, including some of the world's most famous books, made for the Duc de Berry, Catherine of Cleves, Isabella the Catholic, and many others.

Author : L. M. J. Delaissé,James H. Marrow,John De Wit
Publisher : Unicorn Press (UK)
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN : UCBK:C031209236

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Illuminated Manuscripts by L. M. J. Delaissé,James H. Marrow,John De Wit Pdf

Largely unknown and unpublished, many of the manuscripts at Waddesdon are among the best products of Flemish, French and Italian workshops of the later Middle Ages. Some are valuable for their texts, others for the richness of their illumination.

Author : Christopher de Hamel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525559429

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The Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel Pdf

The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.

Author : Timothy Husband,J. Paul Getty Museum,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Belles heures of Jean of France, Duke of Berry
ISBN : 9781588392947

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The Art of Illumination by Timothy Husband,J. Paul Getty Museum,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004290143

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A Companion to Alain Chartier (c.1385-1430) by Anonim Pdf

In Alain Chartier: Père de l’éloquence française contributors explore the diverse literary production of this influential late-medieval writer, whose concern with personal and political ethics and renovation of poetic form inspired generations of writers, and still resonate with modern readers.

Author : Jessica Brantley
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812298451

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Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms by Jessica Brantley Pdf

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital theoretical questions in medieval literary studies. With nearly 200 illustrations, many of them in color, the book offers both a broad survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts and a dozen case studies of particularly significant literary witnesses, including the Beowulf manuscript, the St. Albans Psalter, the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe. Practical discussions of parchment, scripts, decoration, illustration, and bindings mix with consideration of such conceptual categories as ownership, authorship, language, miscellaneity, geography, writing, editing, mediation, illustration, and performance—as well as of the status of the literary itself. Each case study includes an essay orienting the reader to particularly productive categories of analysis and a selected bibliography for further research. Because a high-quality digital surrogate exists for each of the selected manuscripts, fully and freely available online, readers can gain access to the artifacts in their entirety, enabling further individual exploration and facilitating the book’s classroom use. Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms aims to inspire a broad group of readers with some of the excitement of literary manuscript studies in the twenty-first century. The interpretative frameworks surrounding each object will assist everyone in thinking through the implications of manuscript culture more generally, not only for the deeper study of the literature of the Middle Ages, but also for a better understanding of book cultures of any era, including our own.

Author : J.H. Bowman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317171881

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British Librarianship and Information Work 2001–2005 by J.H. Bowman Pdf

This important reference volume covers developments in aspects of British library and information work during the five year period 2001-2005. Over forty contributors, all of whom are experts in their subject, provide an overview of their field along with extensive further references which act as a starting point for further research. The book provides a comprehensive record of library and information management during the past five years and will be essential reading for all scholars, library professionals and students.

Author : Anne Dunlop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9462985200

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Antipodean Early Modern by Anne Dunlop Pdf

This collection of essays showcases extraordinary objects held by Australian collections, revealing a wide range of contemporary art and historical research.

Author : Kathryn M. Rudy
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783745197

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Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print by Kathryn M. Rudy Pdf

In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of a Netherlandish book of hours made in 1500. Image, Knife, and Gluepot painstakingly reconstructs the process by which this manuscript was created and discusses its significance as a text at the forefront of fifteenth-century book production, when the invention of mechanically-produced images led to the creation of new multimedia objects. Rudy then travels to the nineteenth century to examine the phenomenon of manuscript books being pillaged for their prints and drawings: she has diligently tracked down the dismembered parts of this book of hours for the first time. Image, Knife, and Gluepot also documents Rudy’s twenty-first-century research process, as she hunts through archives while grappling with the logistics and occasionally the limits of academic research. This is a timely volume, focusing on questions of materiality at the forefront of medieval and literary studies. Beautifully illustrated throughout, its use of original material and its striking interdisciplinary approach, combining book and art history, make it a significant academic achievement. Image, Knife, and Gluepot is a valuable text for any scholar in the fields of medieval studies, the history of early books and publishing, cultural history or material culture. Written in Rudy’s inimitable style, it will also be rewarding for any student enrolled in a course on manuscript production, as well as non-specialists interested in the afterlives of manuscripts and prints. The Royal Society of Edinburgh has generously contributed to this Open Access publication. Due to the number and quality of the images in this book, we have provided the option of a more expensive hardback edition, printed on the best quality paper available, in order to present the images as clearly and beautifully as possible. We hope this range of options — the freely available PDF, HTML and XML editions; the economically priced EPUB, MOBI and paperback editions; and the more expensively printed hardback — will satisfy everyone. Furthermore the HTML edition allows readers to magnify the images of the manuscripts displayed in the book.

Author : Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:715139314

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The Rothschild Library by Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild Pdf

Author : Ingo F. Walther,Norbert Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 3836572850

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Codices Illustres. The World's Most Famous Illuminated Manuscripts 400 to 1600 by Ingo F. Walther,Norbert Wolf Pdf

Author : Christopher de Hamel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698163386

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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel Pdf

An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize. A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Gift Guide Pick! Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and about the modern world, too. In so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, and collectors. He traces the elaborate journeys that these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time and shows us how they have been copied, how they have been embroiled in politics, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and as symbols of national identity, and who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell). From the earliest book in medieval England to the incomparable Book of Kells to the oldest manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, these encounters tell a narrative of intellectual culture and art over the course of a millennium. Two of the manuscripts visited are now in libraries of North America, the Morgan Library in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts allows us to experience some of the greatest works of art in our culture to give us a different perspective on history and on how we come by knowledge.

Author : Rob Dückers,Pieter Roelofs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047428572

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The Limbourg Brothers by Rob Dückers,Pieter Roelofs Pdf

In 2005 Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen presented the exhibition ‘The Limbourg Brothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court (1400-1416)’. This was the first time that original miniatures from four manuscripts by the Limbourg brothers were shown in the Netherlands. The exhibition formed an excellent opportunity to invite prominent scholars to share their views on the art of the Limbourg brothers during a two-day conference. This publication presents in written form the conference papers delivered by some of the leading scholars in the field.

Author : Andrea Bayer,Laura D. Corey
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397096

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Making The Met, 1870–2020 by Andrea Bayer,Laura D. Corey Pdf

Published to celebrate The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary, Making The Met, 1870–2020 examines the institution’s evolution from an idea—that art can inspire anyone who has access to it—to one of the most beloved global collections in the world. Focusing on key transformational moments, this richly illustrated book provides insight into the visionary figures and events that led The Met in new directions. Among the many topics explored are the impact of momentous acquisitions, the central importance of education and accessibility, the collaboration that resulted from international excavations, the Museum’s role in preserving cultural heritage, and its interaction with contemporary art and artists. Complementing this fascinating history are more than two hundred works that changed the very way we look at art, as well as rarely seen archival and behind-the-scenes images. In the final chapter, Met Director Max Hollein offers a meditation on evolving approaches to collecting art from around the world, strategies for reaching new and diverse audiences, and the role of museums today.

Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271089010

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The Absent Image by Elina Gertsman Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures. Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death. Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.