The Cambridge Illuminations PDF Download

Author: Paul Binski
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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An informative and richly illustrated guide to over 200 outstanding illuminated manuscripts and leaves featured in this spectacular exhibition.

Author: Stella Panayotova
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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26 papers delivered at the Conference held in Cambridge in December 2005 by a distinguished group of art historians and medievalists are presented here, each with illustrations.

Author: Stella Panayotova
Publisher: Harvey Miller
ISBN: 9781909400566
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"This richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition that celebrates the bicentenary of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge with a display of its finest illuminated manuscripts. Of all the medieval and Renaissance arts - from sculptures, ivories, frescoes and stained glass to easel and wall paintings - it is manuscript illuminations, protected inside volumes, that best preserve the glowing colours and precious metals that would have dazzled their original spectators. The focus of this exciting and innovative exhibition is on COLOUR: it integrates scientific and art historical analyses of painting materials and techniques with studies on the manuscripts' historic contexts of production, including the relationships between artists and patrons. Identifications of the pigments' chemical composition and methods of application are considered alongside their aesthetic impact as well as the multiple dimensions and meanings of colour appreciated by medieval and Renaissance viewers. Over 150 manuscripts are displayed in the exhibition dating from the 8th to the 19th century and all are catalogued and fully illustrated here. The manuscripts are grouped in 14 thematic sections each of which is introduced by an essay that includes further relevant illustrations and presents the scientific and art historical analyses in a broader cultural context. The majority of the exhibits are from the Museum's collection and the main focus is on Western European illumination, but examples of Byzantine, Armenian, Persian and Sanskrit manuscripts are also included. In addition there are special loans from other Cambridge, British and European collections. The catalogue entries and introductory essays are written by a team of leading manuscript scholars, scientists and conservators who offer an integrated, cross-disciplinary approach and new insights into the art of illumination."--

Author: Paul Binski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500600
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 725

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Cambridge University Library's collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international significance. It originates in the medieval university and stands alongside the holdings of the colleges and the Fitzwilliam Museum. The University Library contains major European examples of medieval illumination from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, with acknowledged masterpieces of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance book art, as well as illuminated literary texts, including the first complete Chaucer manuscript. This catalogue provides scholars and researchers easy access to the University Library's illuminated manuscripts, evaluating the importance of many of them for the very first time. It contains descriptions of famous manuscripts, for example the Life of Edward the Confessor attributed to Matthew Paris, as well as hundreds of lesser-known items. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the catalogue contains descriptions of individual manuscripts with up-to-date assessments of their style, origins and importance, together with bibliographical references.

Author: Christopher De Hamel
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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"Illuminated manuscripts are perhaps the most beautiful treasures to survive from the middle ages. This authoritative volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the medieval world of books, their production and their consumption. The text divides this world into different groups of readers and writers: missionaries, emperors, monks, students, aristocrats, priests, collectors and the general public. De Hamel is both informative and immensely readable, and the sumptuous illustrations render this book too good to be missed."--From Amazon.com

Author: Jennifer Bain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108471358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.

Author: Stella Panayotova
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Having rested unknown for centuries in the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, the Macclesfield Psalter is the most important medieval manuscript discovered in living memory and has captured the nation's imagination.

Author: David E. Nye
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262344793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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How Americans adapted European royal illuminations for patriotic celebrations, spectacular expositions, and intensely bright commercial lighting to create the world's most dazzling and glamorous cities. Illuminated fêtes and civic celebrations began in Renaissance Italy and spread through the courts of Europe. Their fireworks, torches, lamps, and special effects glorified the monarch, marked the birth of a prince, or celebrated military victory. Nineteenth-century Americans rejected such monarchial pomp and adapted spectacular lighting to their democratic, commercial culture. In American Illuminations, David Nye explains how they experimented with gas and electric light to create illuminated cityscapes far brighter and more dynamic than those of Europe, and how these illuminations became symbols of modernity and the conquest of nature. Americans used gaslight and electricity in parades, expositions, advertising, elections, and political spectacles. In the 1880s, cities erected powerful arc lights on towers to create artificial moonlight. By the 1890s they adopted more intensive, commercial lighting that defined distinct zones of light and glamorized the city's White Ways, skyscrapers, bridges, department stores, theaters, and dance halls. Poor and blighted areas disappeared into the shadows. American illuminations also became integral parts of national political campaigns, presidential inaugurations, and victory celebrations after the Spanish-American War and World War I.

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ISBN: 9780904454710
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 14

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George Henderson, 'Introduction'; Andrea Worm, 'The Gospel Book in the Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 21: Some New Aspects of the Artistic Relationship between the Meuse Valley, the Rhineland and Lower-Saxony'; Catherine Karkov, 'Evangelist Portraits and Book Production in Anglo-Saxon England'; Stella Panayotova, 'Tutorials with Slides for Thomas Becket'; Robert Scheller, 'Wreath and Crown in Apocalypse Illustrations'; Martine Meuwese, 'The Exploits of Alexander the Great in Trinity College'; Mary Rouse, 'Keeping Up Appearances: CUL Gg.4.6, Roman de la rose'; Richard Rouse, 'The Illuminator of Marie de St. Pol's Breviary'; Spike Bucklow, 'A Tale of Two Blues'; Kathleen Scott, 'Manuscripts for Henry VII in Cambridge'; T.A. Heslop, 'Manuscript Illumination at Worcester in 1055-1075'; William Schipper, 'Sacred Cross Word Puzzles: Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.16.3'; Lawrence Nees, 'Between Carolingian and Romanesque in France: Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 19 and its Relatives'; Gennaro Toscano, 'Cristoforo Majorana e la miniature all'antica: a proposito di qualche codice conservato a Cambridge'; Jessica Berenbeim, 'English Fourteenth-Century Pastoral Manuscripts'; Judith Oliver, 'Te matrem laudamus: The Many Roles of Mary in Liege Psalter Hours in Cambridge'; Lilian Armstrong, 'Venetian Incunables in Cambridge Collections: Modes of Hand-Illumination'; Anne-Marie Legare, 'New Elements on the Oettingen Library: Fitzwilliam MS 22'; Michael Michael, 'Seeing in the Macclesfield Psalter and the Trinity Bede'; Margaret Manion, 'Blending Private and Liturgical Prayer: MS 3-1954 at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Valois Patronage'; Nicholas Rogers, 'From Eleanor of Castile to John Scott the Younger: Evidence for Illumination in Cambridge'; Patrick Zutshi, 'The Provenance of the so-called Hours of Isabella of Aragon'; Roger Wieck, 'The Primer of Claude de France and the Education of the Renaissance Child'; Lucy Sandler, 'The Macclesfield Psalter'; William Noel, 'W. de Brailes and the Illustration of the Psalter in Thirteenth-Century England'; Peter Jones, 'Cambridge University Library MS Gg.1.1: Fancy Horse or Pack-mule?'; Eberhard Konig, 'Angers Illumination in Cambridge (FM MSS 62, 39-1950)'; Alison Stones, 'Some Secular Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections'

Author: Jessica Berenbeim
Publisher: Studies and Texts
ISBN: 9780888441942
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The later Middle Ages was a time of profound connection between the spheres of bureaucracy and art. By discussing the two together, this book argues that art-historical methods offer an important contribution to diplomatics, and that works of art are important sources for the cultural reception of documentary practices. Documents are also an important model for representation, and an understanding of the paradigmatic role of the document suggests alternative dimensions to the interpretation of late-medieval art. Ultimately, the ways documents appeared, functioned, and were perceived have implications for objects of all kinds. The discourses of documentation suggested an essential and consequential connection between objects and events: documents offered a powerful and widely disseminated model for how ephemeral actions and relationships could find enduring material form. With the broad diffusion of administrative records, this idea came to manifest itself in other forms of visual culture. Medieval monks inventoried documents alongside the contents of their treasuries, set them on the altar, and wrote about fantastical charters of gold. Documents can still be a person's - or a nation's - most treasured possessions. As powerful objects of veneration and instruments of control, they connect medieval society and our own, testing modern perceptions of the Middle Ages as an entirely lost world.