Illuminating the Renaissance The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe

Thomas Kren; Scot McKendrick

ISBN 10: 0892367032 / ISBN 13: 9780892367030

Published by Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2003

About this Item

31 x 23.5 cm. Quarto. 575 pages. Red cloth in dust jacket. Published in conjunction with an ehibition organized at J. Paul Getty Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts, and The British Library held at the Getty Museum from June 17 through September 7, 2003 and at the Royal Academy of Arts from November 25, 2003 to February 22, 2004. Crease to rear jacket flap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Illuminating the Renaissance The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe
• Publisher: Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0892367032
• ISBN 13: 9780892367030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

This comprehensive and richly illustrated catalogue focuses on the finest illustrated manuscripts produced in Europe during the great epoch in Flemish illumination. During this aesthetically fertile period - beginning in 1467 with the reign of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold and ending in 1561 with the death of the artist Simon Bening - the art of book painting was raised to a new level of sophistication.Sharing inspiration with the celebrated panel painters of the time, illuminators achieved astonishing innovations in the handling of colour, light, texture, and space, creating a naturalistic style that would dominate tastes throughout Europe for nearly a century. Focusing on the notable artists of the period - Simon Marmion, the Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy, Gerard David, Gerard Horenbout, Bening, and others - the catalogue examines both devotional and secular manuscript illumination within a broad context.