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Title
  • The language of forms : lectures on Insular manuscript art / Meyer Schapiro ; foreword by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. ; introduction by Jane E. Rosenthal.
Author
Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996
Publication
New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, c2005.

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Description
199 p. : ill. (some col.), port.; 28 cm.
Alternative Title
Lectures on Insular manuscript art
Subject
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, English
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Irish
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Great Britain
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Ireland
Note
  • Lectures were the first of the Jasper Walls lecture series given at the Morgan, N.Y. in 1968.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195) and index.
Language (note)
  • German and English.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Frame, field, and figure -- The carpet page and the giant initial -- Image and ornament -- Models and their transformation : single figures and motifs -- Models and their transformation : composition and field and frame -- The religious and secular grounds of insular art.
ISBN
0875981402 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2004060195
OCLC
57286007
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library