"The Apocalypse, or Book of Revelation, is not only the last Book of the New Testament, but its most difficult, puzzling, and terrifying. It provided challenges to medieval illustrators and was the source for a number of popular images, such as Christ in Majesty, the Adoration of the Lamb, and the Madonna of the Apocalypse and contributed to the widespread use of the Evangelists' symbols. "
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"... is considered to be one of the best examples of its type. The manuscript, written and illuminated in England around 1200, is of added interest since it contains notes, sketches and other evidence of the way it was designed and executed."
"This Book of Hours, referred to as the Black Hours, is one of a small handful of manuscripts written and illuminated on vellum that is stained or painted black. ...The anonymous painter of the Black Hours is an artist whose style depended mainly upon that of Willem Vrelant, one of the dominant illuminators working in Bruges from the late 1450s until his death in 1481."
"This digital facsimile provides reproductions of all 157 miniatures (and facing text pages) from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves. The original one-volume prayer book had been taken apart in the nineteenth century; the leaves were shuffled and then rebound into two confusing volumes. This presentation offers the miniatures in their original, fifteenth-century sequence. "
"Illuminated around 1500 by the artist Jean Poyer, The Hours of Henry VIII receives its name from the possible but unproven eighteenth-century tradition that holds King Henry of England once owned this splendid manuscript. By following the simple instructions, you can explore every painting of this Renaissance masterpiece and learn how Books of Hours helped their readers to pray."
"56 letters and 1 document by the Italian sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati written between 1560 and 1578. The letters document 4 Tuscan projects: the porphyry column in the Piazza St. Trinita in Florence, the Palazzo Pitti, the Ponte a Mare in Pisa, and the Neptune fountain in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence."
"This prayer book was commissioned by Anne de Bretagne, wife of two successive kings of France, Charles VIII and Louis XII, to teach her son, the dauphin Charles-Orland (1492–1495), his catechism. It was painted in Tours by Jean Poyer, an artist documented as working for the queen. The book is richly illustrated, and its thirty-four airy, light-flooded miniatures are among the most delicate examples of late-fifteenth-century art."
"Originally commissioned in the 15th century by the Viscontis, a Milanese family that dominated the cultural life of northern Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries, this deck is one of the oldest sets in existence. The cards are attributed to Bonifacio Bembo, an Italian fresco artist who flourished between 1447-1478."
Visconti Tarot. Cary Collection of Playing Cards, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Book Sources: Visual & Fine Arts - Medieval and Renaissance
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The Foremost Medieval Treatise on Painting, Glassmaking, and Metalwork
Translated from the Latin with introd. and notes by John G. Hawthorne and Cyril Stanley Smith.
Translated from the Latin with introd. and notes by C. R. Dodwell.
The title "normally used in past publications has been the Diversarum artium schedula."
Luxury and Leisure, Duty and Devotion : A Sourcebook / selected, translated and introduced by Paola Tinagli and Mary Rogers
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