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ISBN: 1009239570 1009193872 1009193864 1009239554 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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This richly illustrated study addresses the essential first steps in the development of the new phenomenon of the illuminated book, which innovatively introduced colourful large letters and ornamental frames as guides for the reader's access to the text. Tracing their surprising origins within late Roman reading practices, Lawrence Nees shows how these decorative features stand as ancestors to features of printed and electronic books we take for granted today, including font choice, word spacing, punctuation and sentence capitalisation. Two hundred photographs, nearly all in colour, illustrate and document the decisive change in design from ancient to medieval books. Featuring an extended discussion of the importance of race and ethnicity in twentieth-century historiography, this book argues that the first steps in the development of this new style of book were taken on the European continent within classical practices of reading and writing, and not as, usually presented, among the non-Roman 'barbarians'.
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Year: 1989 Publisher: Montecassino: Pubblicazioni cassinesi,
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Year: 1979 Publisher: Moskva: Iskusstvo,
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Sur la miniature arménienne (11e siècle)
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Year: 1970 Publisher: Leningrad: Akademiâ hudozestv SSSR,
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Year: 1958 Publisher: Keulen : DuMont Schauberg,
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Year: 1960 Publisher: Stuttgart : Reclam,
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Year: 1882 Publisher: Leipzig : A. Dürr,
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ISBN: 2605002993 9782605002993 Year: 1995 Publisher: Paris: Bookking international,
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ISBN: 9783110620153 3110620154 Year: 2021 Publisher: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co.,
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The presence of gold, silver, and other metals is a hallmark of decorated manuscripts, the very characteristic that makes them "illuminated". Medieval artists often used metal pigment and leaf to depict metal objects both real and imagined, such as chalices, crosses, tableware, and even idols; the luminosity of these representations contrasted pointedly with the surrounding paints, enriching the page and dazzling the viewer. To elucidate this key artistic tradition, this volume represents the first in-depth scholarly assessment of the depiction of precious-metal objects in manuscripts and the media used to conjure them. From Paris to the Abbasid caliphate, and from Ethiopia to Bruges, the case studies gathered here forge novel approaches to the materiality and pictoriality of illumination. In exploring the semiotic, material, iconographic, and technical dimensions of these manuscripts, the authors reveal the canny ways in which painters generated metallic presence on the page. Illuminating Metalwork is a landmark contribution to the study of the medieval book and its visual and embodied reception, and is poised to be a staple of research in art history and manuscript studies, accessible to undergraduates and specialists alike.
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