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Leaves of gold : manuscript illumination from Philadelphia collections : [exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, march 10-may 13, 2001, Frist Center for the Visual Art, Nashville, september 28, 2001-january 6, 2002]


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L'art du manuscrit à la Renaissance en France : [exposition au Musée Condé, château de Chantilly, 26 septembre 2001 au 7 janvier 2002]
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ISBN: 2850564974 9782850564970 Year: 2001 Publisher: Paris : Chantilly : Somogy, Musée Condé,


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Renaissance manuscripts : the sixteenth century
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ISBN: 9781909400443 9781872501307 9781909400450 1872501303 1909400440 1909400459 Year: 2015 Volume: *3 Publisher: London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers,

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This publication is the first comprehensive survey to establish the importance of Renaissance manuscript illumination in the history of sixteenth-century French art. Although illustrated printed books were circulating freely by the beginning of the sixteenth century, patronage of manuscripts became all the more special to the ruling elite, and commissions from the court, aristocratic circles and the higher clergy resulted in a surge of artistic creativity that produced a wide range of outstanding illustrated works from devotional books to translations of classical and humanistic texts. While continuing the tradition of French figurative art, ornamentation became a major element in the style of the period, with frames and borders becoming a significant feature of the aesthetic impact of the illuminated page. One hundred manuscripts have been chosen for this survey to represent the artistic excellence of French book production of the period, as well as to demonstrate the stylistic relationships between artists and between books that may be seen to form distinct groups. Many years of research enabled the author to identify the hands of individual illuminators, both named and anonymous, and to connect these to a particular artistic milieu or regional group. Moreover, not only are the stylistic aspects of the manuscripts analysed, but entirely new information regarding authorship, patronage and historical context are revealed here of hitherto unstudied material. The author, Myra Orth, completed her catalogue and introductory texts shortly before her sad death some years ago. Since that time, a number of scholars – specialists in French manuscripts studies of the period – have helped to update the literature that has more recently appeared relating to the manuscripts catalogued and to the individual artists and workshops discussed. Present locations of manuscripts that may have changed ownership since Dr Orth’s submission of her work have also been noted. To accompany the detailed catalogue, the publication includes a corpus of 360 illustrations that offers a significant visual conspectus of manuscript illumination of the period. In addition to the introductory text, the author also provides brief biographies of Artists and Scribes, Authors and Translators, and Patrons and Dedicatees. --Harvey Miller Publishers

Iter Italicum : a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries
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ISBN: 9004069259 9004081488 9004077197 9004090894 9004099344 9004094555 9004105921 9004105727 9789004069251 9789004077195 9789004105928 9789004099340 9789004094550 9789004090897 9789004081482 Year: 1963 Publisher: London : Leiden : Warburg Institute ; Brill,


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The Classics in the medieval and renaissance classroom : the role of the ancient texts in the Arts Curriculum as revealed by surviving manuscripts and early printed books
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ISBN: 9782503527543 9782503539539 250352754X 250353953X Year: 2013 Volume: 20 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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Medievalists and Renaissance specialists contribute to this compelling volume examining how and why the classics of Greek and Latin culture were taught in various Western European curricula (including in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Italy) from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. By analysing some of the commentaries, glosses, and paraphrases of these classics that were deployed in medieval and Renaissance classrooms, and by off ering greater insight into premodern pedagogic practice, the chapters here emphasize the 'pragmatic' aspects of humanist study. The volume proposes that the classics continued to be studied in the medieval and Renaissance periods not simply for their cultural or 'ornamental' value, but also for utilitarian reasons, for 'life lessons'. Because the volume goes beyond analysing the educational manuals surviving from the premodern period and attempts to elucidate the teaching methodology of the premodern period, it provides anuanced insight into the formation of the premodern individual.

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