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Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : Michelle Brown
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066119

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Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts by Michelle Brown Pdf

What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms offers definitions of the key elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the techniques, processes, materials, nomenclature, and styles used in the making of these precious books. Updated to reflect current research and technologies, this beautifully illustrated guide includes images of important manuscript illuminations from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and beyond. Concise, readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered in manuscript studies make this portable volume an essential resource for students, scholars, and readers who wish a deeper understanding and enjoyment of illuminated manuscripts and medieval book production.

A History of Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : Christopher De Hamel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019174395

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A History of Illuminated Manuscripts by Christopher De Hamel Pdf

"Illuminated manuscripts are perhaps the most beautiful treasures to survive from the middle ages. This authoritative volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the medieval world of books, their production and their consumption. The text divides this world into different groups of readers and writers: missionaries, emperors, monks, students, aristocrats, priests, collectors and the general public. De Hamel is both informative and immensely readable, and the sumptuous illustrations render this book too good to be missed."--From Amazon.com

Manuscripta Illuminata

Author : Colum Hourihane
Publisher : Index of Christian Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 0983753733

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Manuscripta Illuminata by Colum Hourihane Pdf

Princeton University's unique collection of medieval manuscripts, stretching from Ottonian to the late Gothic-early Renaissance periods, forms the nucleus of this collection of essays. Written by some of the most celebrated scholars in the field, the studies make every effort to help us understand the power of the written and illuminated word.

Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : Michelle P. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : OCLC:1121292098

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Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Makers

Author : Rowan Watson
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810966069

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Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Makers by Rowan Watson Pdf

The magnificent pages of medieval missals, books of hours, breviaries, and bibles sparkle with detail illuminating the world in which they were created. This splendid volume, featuring some of the finest illuminated masterpieces from the exceptional collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, details the remarkable collaboration and craftsmanship that went into the creation of these delicate treasures. Close-up details show the intricacies of the various techniques used to create these fragile and rarely seen works. By helping the reader to appreciate the individual elements of illumination--the initials, borders, illustrations, script, and binding--Rowan Watson brings the world of the scribes, illuminators, and book dealers to life, and sheds light on the cooperative religious communities in which many of them worked. Watson also looks at the survival of illumination after the printing press and its revival in the 19th century in the hands of such pioneering designers as Owen Jones and William Morris.

Illuminating the Middle Ages

Author : Laura Cleaver,Alixe Bovey,Lucy Donkin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004422339

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Illuminating the Middle Ages by Laura Cleaver,Alixe Bovey,Lucy Donkin Pdf

The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books.

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : Thomas Kren,Elizabeth C. Teviotdale,Adam S. Cohen,Kurtis Barstow
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364466

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts by Thomas Kren,Elizabeth C. Teviotdale,Adam S. Cohen,Kurtis Barstow Pdf

The Getty Museum’s collection of illuminated manuscripts, featured in this book, comprises masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance art. Dating from the tenth to the sixteenth century, they were produced in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, England, Spain, Poland, and the eastern Mediterranean. Among the highlights are four Ottonian manuscripts, Romanesque treasures from Germany, Italy, and France, an English Gothic Apocalypse, and late medieval manuscripts painted by such masters as Jean Fouquet, Girolamo da Cremona, Simon Marmion, and Joris Hoefnagel. Included are glistening liturgical books, intimate and touching devotional books for private use, books of the Bible, lively histories by Giovanni Boccaccio and Jean Froissart, and a breathtaking Model Book of Calligraphy.

Toward a Global Middle Ages

Author : Bryan C. Keene
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065983

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Toward a Global Middle Ages by Bryan C. Keene Pdf

This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.

Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : Richard Hayman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781784422356

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Illuminated Manuscripts by Richard Hayman Pdf

Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand and their illustration using brightly coloured pigments and gold embellishments was a labour of love and an act of piety in itself. The results are stunning. The works emanating from the scriptoria of monasteries were mainly religious texts, including illuminated bibles, psalters, and works for private devotion known as books of hours. Illuminated Manuscripts describes the origin and history of illumination in the Middle Ages, covering the artists and their techniques, and the patrons who commissioned them. It explains the subject matter found in medieval works, such as saints and Bible stories and the use of ornamental flourishes, and is illustrated with many fine examples of the genre including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells.

The Art & Science of Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : Stella Panayotova
Publisher : Harvey Miller
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912554593

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The Art & Science of Illuminated Manuscripts by Stella Panayotova Pdf

The results achieved by the research of the pioneering MINIARE research project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge led to the ground-breaking and acclaimed 2016 exhibition "COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts." This was followed by an international Conference, in which art historians, paper and book conservators, and cultural heritage scientists were brought together to share new recent research not only on manuscripts but also on painting in other media. The Conference proceedings were published in the first two volumes of the HMMIMA series (2017-2018). The present publication includes 6 Essays by way of introducing and explaining the major topics being investigated, including the range of inks, pigments and paint binders used by illuminators; parchment-making; pigment recipes; and model books. The many analytical instruments and techniques that are used to investigate manuscripts are also discussed. Then follow 58 Case Studies of manuscripts from as early as the year 700 up to c.1600. All these are fully illustrated in colour and in great detail, and should act as examples to inform scholars in libraries, museums and other cultural institutions of the benefits of adding scientific tools to the range of methods used to investigate manuscripts.

Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces of Art

Author : Michael Kerrigan
Publisher : Flame Tree Illustrated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1783612118

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Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces of Art by Michael Kerrigan Pdf

Prior to the invention of the printing press, all books had to be written by hand. Manuscripts are the beautiful manifestation of this craft, and the most precious and expensive of such manuscripts were 'illuminated' through the use of brightly coloured pigments and gold embellishments. Beginning with a fresh and thoughtful introduction to illuminated manuscripts, Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces of Art goes on to showcase key works in this stunning artistic genre.

Colour

Author : Stella Panayotova,Deirdre Jackson,Paola Ricciardi
Publisher : Harvey Miller
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
ISBN : 1909400564

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Colour by Stella Panayotova,Deirdre Jackson,Paola Ricciardi Pdf

"This richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition that celebrates the bicentenary of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge with a display of its finest illuminated manuscripts. Of all the medieval and Renaissance arts - from sculptures, ivories, frescoes and stained glass to easel and wall paintings - it is manuscript illuminations, protected inside volumes, that best preserve the glowing colours and precious metals that would have dazzled their original spectators. The focus of this exciting and innovative exhibition is on COLOUR: it integrates scientific and art historical analyses of painting materials and techniques with studies on the manuscripts' historic contexts of production, including the relationships between artists and patrons. Identifications of the pigments' chemical composition and methods of application are considered alongside their aesthetic impact as well as the multiple dimensions and meanings of colour appreciated by medieval and Renaissance viewers. Over 150 manuscripts are displayed in the exhibition dating from the 8th to the 19th century and all are catalogued and fully illustrated here. The manuscripts are grouped in 14 thematic sections each of which is introduced by an essay that includes further relevant illustrations and presents the scientific and art historical analyses in a broader cultural context. The majority of the exhibits are from the Museum's collection and the main focus is on Western European illumination, but examples of Byzantine, Armenian, Persian and Sanskrit manuscripts are also included. In addition there are special loans from other Cambridge, British and European collections. The catalogue entries and introductory essays are written by a team of leading manuscript scholars, scientists and conservators who offer an integrated, cross-disciplinary approach and new insights into the art of illumination."--

The Medieval Book

Author : Barbara A. Shailor,Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Medieval Academy of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802068537

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The Medieval Book by Barbara A. Shailor,Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Medieval Academy of America Pdf

Originally published by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1988.

Medieval Calligraphy

Author : Marc Drogin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989-11-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486261423

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Medieval Calligraphy by Marc Drogin Pdf

Spirited history and comprehensive instruction manual covers 13 styles (ca. 4th–15th centuries). Excellent photographs; directions for duplicating medieval techniques with modern tools. "Vastly rewarding and illuminating." — American Artist.

The Book of the Art of Cennino Cennini

Author : Cennino Cennini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Painting
ISBN : UOM:39015004779016

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The Book of the Art of Cennino Cennini by Cennino Cennini Pdf