Book of Marvels
A Medieval Guide to the Globe
ISBN: HB: 9781606069035,
Getty Publications,
June 2024
152 pp., 25,4x25,4 cm, 99 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
152 pp., 25,4x25,4 cm, 99 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This fascinating volume explores an important fifteenth-century illustrated manuscript tradition that provides a revealing glimpse of how western Europeans conceptualized the world.
From the classical encyclopedias of Pliny to famous tales such as "...
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35.00 GBP
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Book of Beasts
The Bestiary in the Medieval World
ISBN: HB: 9781606065907,
Getty Publications,
June 2019
356 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
356 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures, such as the unicorn, siren and griffin; exotic beasts, including the tiger...
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50.00 GBP
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Knight for the Ages
Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry
ISBN: HB: 9781606065754,
Getty Publications,
November 2018
192 pp., 29,2x20,8 cm, 94 colour illus.
192 pp., 29,2x20,8 cm, 94 colour illus.
The Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing (Book of the Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing), a famous Flemish illuminated manuscript, relays the audacious life of Jacques de Lalaing (1421-1453), a story that reads more like a fast-paced adventure novel. Prod...
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48.00 GBP
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Ivory Mirror
The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300225952,
Yale University Press,
August 2017
240 pp., 24,8x19,0 cm, 190 colour illus.
240 pp., 24,8x19,0 cm, 190 colour illus.
A fascinating exploration of the visual culture of mortality in Renaissance Europe.
We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this p...
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40.00 GBP
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Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies
Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East
ISBN: HB: 9781606064634,
Getty Publications,
January 2016
176 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
176 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
One of the finest works from the golden era of Flemish manuscript illumination, the Getty'scopy of the "Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies" tells of the adventures of a medieval nobleman. Part travelogue, part romance, and part epic, the text traces th...
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42.00 GBP
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Imagining the Past in France
History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500
ISBN: PB: 9781606060292,
ISBN: HB: 9781606060285,
Getty Publications,
November 2010
384 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 194 colour illus., 1 map
384 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 194 colour illus., 1 map
This beautiful volume examines the most important illuminations found in French history manuscripts. From around the mid 13th to the end of the 16th century, the most important and original work being done in secular illumination was unquestionably i...
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40.00 GBP
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70.00 GBP
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Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context
ISBN: HB: 9780892368525,
Getty Publications,
April 2007
160 pp., 27,9x19,7 cm, 83 black&white illus., 67 colour illus.
160 pp., 27,9x19,7 cm, 83 black&white illus., 67 colour illus.
A companion to the prize-winning exhibition catalogue "Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe", edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick (2003), this volume contains thirteen selected papers presented at t...
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50.00 GBP
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