Product details
ISBN
9781899828876
Published
2002-12-31
Publisher
Pindar Press; Pindar Press
Weight
1096 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
170 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
428
Author
Biographical note
Jonathan Alexander is Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a noted authority on Italian medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination. His numerous publications include Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work, and he recently organized the exhibition The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550 at the Royal Academy of London.
The author is Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a noted authority on Italian medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination. His numerous publications include Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work, and he recently organized the exhibition The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550 at the Royal Academy of London.
The present volume presents a comprehensive selection of Professor Alexander's papers on Italian manuscript illumination, from the medieval period through the Renaissance. These feature some of the most celebrated works of one of the great ages of book production.
A paper on marginal illustrations in Italian manuscripts is published here for the first time, and the older studies have been extensively revised and updated. There is a comprehensive index, and a new introduction by the author.
The present volume presents a comprehensive selection of Professor Alexander's papers on Italian manuscript illumination, from the medieval period through the Renaissance. These feature some of the most celebrated works of one of the great ages of book production.
A paper on marginal illustrations in Italian manuscripts is published here for the first time, and the older studies have been extensively revised and updated. There is a comprehensive index, and a new introduction by the author.
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A comprehensive selection of papers on Italian manuscript illumination, from the medieval period through the Renaissance. These feature some of the most celebrated works of one of the great ages of book production. Includes a new paper on marginal illustrations in Italian manuscripts, updated older studies and a new introduction by the author.
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Introduction
A Virgil Illuminated by Marco Zoppo
The Provenance of the Brooke Antiphonal
Notes on some Veneto-Paduan Illuminated Books of the Renaissance
A Manuscript of Petrarch's Rime and Trionfi
The Illustrated Manuscripts of the 'Notitia Dignitatum'
The Illustrations of the Anonymous 'De Rebus Bellicis'
Fragments of an Illuminated Missal for Pope Innocent VIII
Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in British Collections
A Manuscript of the Gospels from Sta. Maria in Trastevere, Rome
Initials in Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts: the Problem of the so-called 'litera Mantiniana'
Illuminations by Matteo da Milano in the Fitzwillian Museum
The Livy (MS 1) illuminated for Gian Giacomo Trivulzio by the Milanese artist 'B.F.'
A Fifteenth-century Italian Drawing inserted in a Valturius Manuscript
Matteo da Milano, Illuminator
Marginal Illustration in Italian Manuscripts
Illumination for Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini (1442-1507)
Additional Notes
Index
A Virgil Illuminated by Marco Zoppo
The Provenance of the Brooke Antiphonal
Notes on some Veneto-Paduan Illuminated Books of the Renaissance
A Manuscript of Petrarch's Rime and Trionfi
The Illustrated Manuscripts of the 'Notitia Dignitatum'
The Illustrations of the Anonymous 'De Rebus Bellicis'
Fragments of an Illuminated Missal for Pope Innocent VIII
Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in British Collections
A Manuscript of the Gospels from Sta. Maria in Trastevere, Rome
Initials in Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts: the Problem of the so-called 'litera Mantiniana'
Illuminations by Matteo da Milano in the Fitzwillian Museum
The Livy (MS 1) illuminated for Gian Giacomo Trivulzio by the Milanese artist 'B.F.'
A Fifteenth-century Italian Drawing inserted in a Valturius Manuscript
Matteo da Milano, Illuminator
Marginal Illustration in Italian Manuscripts
Illumination for Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini (1442-1507)
Additional Notes
Index
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Product details
ISBN
9781899828876
Published
2002-12-31
Publisher
Pindar Press; Pindar Press
Weight
1096 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
170 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
428
Author