Massing J M (5 results)

Original hardcover, dustjacket. xiv,240 pp.; 30.5x22.5 cm. Text in English. - Very good. See picture. This volume documents an exhibition held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from July to September 1993, showcasing late medieval Flemish art. The exhibition featured paintings, sculpture, tapestries, coins, illuminated manuscripts, printed books, and furniture from various Cambridge collections, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, University Library, and several colleges, as well as items from the British Library and Holkham Hall. Highlights include manuscripts from renowned Burgundian libraries and three panels from Queens' College attributed to the Master of the View of Sainte Gudule. The book combines introductory essays with detailed catalogue entries and is generously illustrated in both color and black and white. 1300g. …

Colour and black and white illus., catalogue; 101 items; xiv+240pp. folio orig. pictorial wrappers, Published to accompany an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Warburg Institute, University of London, 1995. XI,212,XXXp. Original off white cloth. Erasmus of Rotterdam had his first great success in 1500, when his 'Adages' were published in Venice. the Greek and Roman proverbs which he recorded and explained in this book met the Renaissance taste for ancient ethical precepts which could be used as a guide to living in the modern world. In many later editions the maxims were vastly increased in number and Erasmus's commentaries often lengthened into moral essays. The 'Adages' became one of the most popular Latin books of the sixteenth century. Jean Michel Massing's edition of a unique manuscript provides an important early example of the influence, direct and indirect, exerted by Erasmus. In this vividly illustrated set of pithy texts, word and image enhance each other in a way that prefigures the emblematic form which was to become so influential throughout Europe. As is demonstrated in the Introduction, the manuscript was intended for the character training of the future King François I. Its texts were chosen by the young prince's tutor, François Demoulins, who combined them with pictures some time between 1512 and François's accession to the throne in 1515. Demoulins drew heavily on the 1508 edition of Erasmus's 'Adages', selecting those precepts which were most obviously appicable to court life and its pitfalls. He also included a number of sayings attributed to Pythagoras, who was much admired as a sage in the Renaissance. Desmoulins's Erasmian manuscript appeared briefly on the London book market in 1937. Fritz Saxl, then Director of the Warburg Institute, recognizing its interest and importance, had a photographic record made. These photographs, which form the basis of the present facsimile, are the sole surviving witness to the work originally presented to François I. the manuscript disappeared from view in the 1940s, reappearing as s set of single-sheet drawings with the text pages discarded and the inscriptions erased from the pictures. Massing's study places the manuscript in its historical, literary and artistic context, as well as emphasizing its significance for the development of the moral emblem. (Publisher's information).…

Tapa blanda. Condition: New. 1ª edición. MASSING, J.-M.: ERASMIAN WIT AND PROVERBIAL WISDOM: AN ILLUSTRATED MORAL COMPENDIUM FOR FRANCOIS I. FACSIMILE OF A DISMEMBERED MANUSCRIPT WITH INTRODUCTION AND DESCRIPTION . LONDON, 1995, xi 212 p. facsimiles, 865 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (JA-2-3) 865 gr. Libro. …

Stuttgart & Zürich, Belser Verlag. 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. l 419 S. Herausgegeber: Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum Köln, Ausstellungskatalog - Ausstellung vom 9. Oktober 1992 bis 10. Januar 1993. 419 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen ( Buchmalerei, Bilddarstellungen aus Stundenbüchern, Bibeln, Missalen usw.). Alle abgebildeten Illustrationen werden begleitet von einem ausführlichen erläuternden Text und der detaillierten Beschreibung (mit wiss. Apparat). des Buches, aus dem sie stammen. Bijzonder mooi exemplaar in schuifdoos. …