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Book Illumination in the Middle Ages

Book Illumination in the Middle Ages
Author: Otto Pächt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
ISBN: 9781872501765

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Based on lectures given at the University of Vienna, this book examines all types of book decoration and illumination between late Antiquity and the Renaissance from the point of view of format and style. Pacht explains the basic vocabulary and concepts by which this art-form is to be understood, and offers insights into the philosophy, theology, technology and culture underlying its history. His subjects include pictorial decoration in the organic structure of the book; the initial; bible illustration; didactic miniatures; illustration of the apocalypse; illustration of the psalter; the conflict of surface and space. Now available in paperback.


A History of Illuminated Manuscripts

A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
Author: Christopher De Hamel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1994
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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"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


Studies in the History of Book Illumination

Studies in the History of Book Illumination
Author: Carl Adam Johan Nordenfalk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1992
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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15 papers on medieval manuscript illumination, from the origins of the art in late antiquity to late medieval French illumination


Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts

Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts
Author: Michelle Brown
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2018-12-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606066110

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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.


Colour

Colour
Author: Stella Panayotova
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
ISBN: 9781909400566

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"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."--


Ottonian Book Illumination

Ottonian Book Illumination
Author: Henry Mayr-Harting
Publisher:
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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The seminal work, originally published in two seperate clothbound volumes, is now made available in a revised one-volume edition, both in hardback and in paperback. It brings to light an aesthic passage of European history which has never before received full-scale treatment in English. It explains, historically and with a rich body of illustrations, the origins and momentum of a magnificent movement of German art, and shows, through this powerful and expressive art, how religion and political ideaology were interwined in Ottonian culture from about 950 to 1050. Besides dealing with the great imperials books such as the Gospels of Otto III and the Pericopes Book of Henry II, as well as other splendid liturgical manuscripts, the author also writes with penetrating insight about the great art-loving bishops such as Egbert of Trier and Bernard of Hildesheim, whose aims ans personalitites are express in the books they commissioned. In addition, the most important art centres of the Ottonian Empire - Reichenau, Cologne, Fulda and Corvey - are discussed in detail.


Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work

Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work
Author: Jonathan James Graham Alexander
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300060737

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Who were the medieval illuminators? How were their hand-produced books illustrated and decorated? In this beautiful book Jonathan Alexander presents a survey of manuscript illumination throughout Europe from the fourth to the sixteenth century. He discusses the social and historical context of the illuminators' lives, considers their methods of work, and presents a series of case studies to show the range and nature of the visual sources and the ways in which they were adapted, copied, or created anew. Alexander explains that in the early period, Christian monasteries and churches were the main centers for the copying of manuscripts, and so the majority of illuminators were monks working in and for their own monasteries. From the eleventh century, lay scribes and illuminators became increasingly numerous, and by the thirteenth century, professional illuminators dominated the field. During this later period, illuminators were able to travel in search of work and to acquire new ideas, they joined guilds with scribes or with artists in the cities, and their ranks included nuns and secular women. Work was regularly collaborative, and the craft was learned through an apprenticeship system. Alexander carefully analyzes surviving manuscripts and medieval treatises in order to explain the complex and time-consuming technical processes of illumination - its materials, methods, tools, choice of illustration, and execution. From rare surviving contracts, he deduces the preoccupation of patrons with materials and schedules. Illustrating his discussion with examples chosen from religious and secular manuscripts made all over Europe, Alexander recreates the astonishing variety and creativity ofmedieval illumination. His book will be a standard reference for years to come.


The Art & Science of Illuminated Manuscripts

The Art & Science of Illuminated Manuscripts
Author: Stella Panayotova
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2021-02-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781912554591

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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 Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland

Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland
Author: Stefan Drechsler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2021-06-28
Genre: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Icelandic
ISBN: 9782503589022

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This book examines a cultural revolution that took place in the Scandinavian artistic landscape during the medieval period. Within just one generation (c. 1340?1400), the Augustinian monastery of Helgafell became the most important centre of illuminated manuscript production in western Iceland. By conducting interdisciplinary research that combines methodologies and sources from the fields of Art History, Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript studies, codicology, and Scandinavian history, this book explores both the illuminated manuscripts produced at Helgafell and the cultural and historical setting of the manuscript production.00Equally, the book explores the broader European contexts of manuscript production at Helgafell, comparing the similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence of Norwich and surrounding East Anglia in England, northern France, and the region between Bergen and Trondheim in western Norway. The book proposes that most of these workshops are related to ecclesiastical networks, as well as secular trade in the North Sea, which became an important economic factor to western Icelandic society in the fourteenth century. The book thereby contributes to a new and multidisciplinary area of research that studies not only one but several European cultures in relation to similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence. It offers a detailed account of this cultural site in relation to its scribal and artistic connections with other ecclesiastical and secular scriptoria in the broader North Atlantic region.


Under the Influence

Under the Influence
Author: John Lowden
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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Lawrence Nees, Godescalc's Career and the Problems of 'Influence' - William Diebold, The Anxiety of Influence in Early Medieval Art - Helen C. Evans, Pseudo-Bonaventura on the Euphrates - Donal Cooper, Franciscan Art and Mendicant Manuscript Illumination in Italy: A Reconsideration of Iconographic Primacy - Robert Gibbs, 'Sober as a Judge': The Influence of Bolognese Law Manuscripts on Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegory of Justice in the Good Commune - Lucy Freeman Sandler, Illuminated in the British Isles: French Influence and/or the Englishness of English Art, 1285-1385 - T. A. Heslop, Authority and Imagination in the Illustration of Terence's Comedies - Patricia Stirnemann Anne Ritz-Guilbert, Cultural Confrontations - Ursula Weekes, The Interplay between Prints and Illuminated Manuscripts in Brigittine Convents of the Low Countries during the 16th Century - Scot McKendrick, Between Flanders and Normandy: A Case of Influence within Collaboration between Flemish and Norman Miniaturists? - Rowan Watson, Fit for a King? The Alfonso of Aragon Hours and Baronial Patronage in Late 15th-century Naples - John Lowden, Under the Influence of the Bibles Moralisees - Cecily Hennessy, The Lincoln Typikon: The Influences of Church and Family - Justine Andrews, Crossing Boundaries: Byzantine and Western Influences in a 14th-century Illustrated Commentary on Job - Dei Jackson, A Work Like No Other: Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria - Kirstin Kennedy, Evidence for the Islamic Source behind the Miniatures in Alfonso X of Castile's 1283 Libro de Ajedrez, dados y tables - David Ganz, Problems of Influence in the Utrecht Psalter