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ISBN: 9781905375677
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 63
This is the first comprehensive and in-depth study of the earliest figural painting ever to have been produced in Flanders on a continual basis. Most of the manuscripts are Psalters, but Bibles, a Breviary, a Missal, a Netherlandic life of a saint... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905375691
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 65
For the catalogue of the 1965 monographic exhibition in Rotterdam and Bruges on Jan Gossart (ca. 1472-1532), a compilation was made of 68 documentary references pertaining to the artist's life and works. Now, forty-five years later, there has been... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905375684
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 64
For her commissioning and performance of a French vernacular version of the Arabic Tale of the Thousand and One Nights - recorded in one of the most vivid and sumptuous late thirteenth-century manuscripts extant - as well as for her numerou... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905375455
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 58
The arts of Renaissance Venice teem with sea monsters. Chief among these are mermaids and mermen --graceful hybrid beings human from the waist up, but with the lower body and tail of a fish, dolphin or sea serpent. Other sea hybrids -- horses, bul... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905375493
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 13
The author analyzes the Renaissance rebuilding of Saint Peter's basilica as a mirror of the political fortunes of the papacy. The project to revitalize the basilica as the center of a resurgent Church proceeded in step with the goal to reassert pa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905375097
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 41
Jews among Christians explores a corpus of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the Lake Constance region produced in the first decades of the fourteenth century. The author Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, provide... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905375196
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 53
Hans Memling was the leading painter in Bruges during the last quarter of the fifteenth century, receiving commissions from patrons in England, Gernmany and Italy as well as Flanders itself. For the Romantics of the nineteenth century, he ranked e... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905375233
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 54
Of the triumvirate of sixteenth-century Venetian painters, Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, Paolo [Caliari] Veronese (1528-1588) best conveyed Venice's civic splendor. His masterpieces in the Doge's Palace conferred on the Republic a magnificence... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905375127
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 47
This book is divided into two parts, the first presenting new evidence and reconstructions of the chapel's design and early history; the second offering new interpretations of Giotto's frescoes. Appendices present original sources, all of which ar... .... Learn More