The history of the illuminated codex, as the exhibition catalogueMedieval Mastery reminds us, more or less coincides with the Middle Ages. The centrality of reading and writing to medieval life and [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
Recent Developments in the Technical Examination of Early Netherlandish Painting: Methodology, Limitations, & Perspectives
This volume functions as the proceedings of the 1996 Harvard University symposium held in conjunction with the opening of the expanded Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, the [...] Read More
lluminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe
The exhibition 'Illuminating the Renaissance' celebrates the flowering of Flemish manuscript illumination between c.1470 and 1560, a century in which illuminators achieved remarkable mastery of color, [...] Read More
The Spitz Master. A Parisian Book of Hours
After his death in 1416, Jean, Duke of Berry, was remembered throughout the fifteenth century as a patron of the arts. Readers of Froissart, for example, learned that Jean was fond of speaking with [...] Read More
Jean Prévost: Le Maître de Moulins
Albert Châtelet's goal in this book is clear from its title: to identify the Master of Moulins, named after a triptych of the Virgin and Child Adored by Angels with Saints and Donors in Moulins [...] Read More
Jérôme Bosch
The product of a sensitive reassessment of Hieronymus Bosch - and not a little frustration over the general state of scholarship on the artist - this book by Roger Van Schoute and Monique Verboomen is [...] Read More