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Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art

Door Roger S. Wieck

Categorie	Boekdrukkunst & Boeken
Boeknummer	#391837-KH23
Titel	Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art
Auteur	Wieck, Roger S.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : George Braziller
Jaar van uitgave	1997
ISBN10	080761419X
ISBN13	9780807614198
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, numerous illustrations in colour, 4to.
Samenvatting	Featured here are some of the finest examples of illuminated pages from medieval and Renaissance Books of Hours. A bestseller for three hundred years, the Book of Hours was a devotional work that almost everyone owned and virtually knew by heart. The 107 glorious illuminations included in this volume are from The Pierpont Morgan Library's collection, one of the world's richest collections of the hand-painted book. Roger Wieck's comprehensive text explores two key elements of Books of Hours: the magnificent illuminations and the texts. Mr. Wieck also introduces these volumes to the general reader, with a discussion of their iconography, the artists who illuminated them, and their role as a religious text in the lives of their owners. As a collection of both stirring words and inspiring imag... (Lees verder)es, the Book of Hours thus comprised a series of painted prayers. The illuminated pages shown here range from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries and come from all the major manuscript-producing countries of Europe. Mr. Wieck's text offers explanations and translations of key passages from the various Hours, psalms, Gospel lessons, hymns, litanies, and private prayers found in a typical Book of Hours. We see its evolution from illuminated manuscripts to the early printed editions of the same texts, leading us from the piety of the Gothic era to the culture of the Renaissance. More Books of Hours survive from the late Middle Ages than any other cultural artifact. Medieval life--and death--cannot begin to be understood without examining these illuminated treasures.
Pagina's	143
Conditie	Goed — Bookplate on verso front cover.
Prijs	€ 25,00

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