Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Kren, Thomas, 1950-

Publication

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McKendrick, Scot
• J. Paul Getty Museum
• Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Description

xv, 575 p. : ill. (some col.), map; 32 cm.

Summary

This is a masterful account of Flemish illumination during its height, 1470-1560. Both precious objects and conveyors of serious meaning, the manuscripts considered here range from ecclesiastical texts, romance, and historical chronicles to ancient authors. The authors' collective and most welcome approach discusses manuscript production in terms of producers and consumers, with respect to artistic, political, and historical issues; these include interrelations between painters and illuminators, and collaboration among printer and illuminator, named scribes, and patronage. The illuminated manuscript is thus integrated into the intellectual and artistic contexts of the Renaissance, instead of regarded in isolation. The advent of printing coexisted with illumination for a time and, at least in one case, in the same workshop. Around 1475, printer Colard Mansion produced manuscripts with illuminations as well as printed texts that had spaces designated for such illustrations. Those who commissioned manuscripts and held sizable libraries included aristocrat Philippe de Homes and rulers Philip the Good, Charles the Bold, and Margaret of York.

Alternative Title

Triumph of Flemish manuscript painting in Europe

Subject

• Geschichte 1450-1560
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish > Exhibitions
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance > Flanders > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Ausstellung.
• Los Angeles (Calif., 2003)

Note

• Exhibition at the Getty Museum from June 17 to September 7, 2003, and at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, from November 29, 2003 to February 22, 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-560) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0892367032 (hardcover)
• 0892367040 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003001611

OCLC

• 51553612
• SCSB-11874261

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library