Illuminating the Renaissance : the triumph of Flemish manuscript painting in Europe / Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth ... [et al.]

Kren, Thomas (1950-)

2003, 1st edition. Los Angeles, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Museum. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #427560
ISBN: 1903973287

Physical description; xv, 575 pages : ill. some col. Notes; Exhibition at the Getty Museum from June 17 to September 7, 2003, and at the Royal Academy of Arts from November 29, 2003 to February 22, 2004. Includes bibliographical references (p. 532-560) and indexes. With contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyzer, Richard Gay, Elizabeth Morrison and Catherine Reynolds. Contents; Introduction / Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick -- Illuminators and the painters' guilds / Catherine Reynolds -- Illuminators and painters : artistic exchanges and interrelationships / Thomas Kren and Maryan W. Ainsworth -- Reviving the past : illustrated manuscripts of secular vernacular texts, 1467-1500 / Scot McKendrick -- From panel to parchment and back : painters as illuminators before 1470 / Thomas Kren -- Revolution and transformation : painting in devotional manuscripts, circa 1467-1485 / Thomas Kren. Painting in manuscripts of vernacular texts, circa 1467-1485 / Scot McKendrick -- Consolidation and renewal : manuscript painting under the Hapsburgs, circa 1485-1510 / Thomas Kren -- New directions in manuscript painting, circa 1510-1561 / Thomas Kren. Subjects; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain). J Paul Getty Museum. J. Paul Getty Museum. Royal Academy of Arts, London. Geschichte 1450-1560. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish ; Exhibitions. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance Flanders ; Exhibitions.

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