Author: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (NEW YORK)
Title: The Robert Lehman Collection IV : Illuminations / Sandra Hindman ... [et al.]
Description: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art. in association with Princeton : Princeton University Press 1997. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 245 pages; Physical desc. : xv. 240p. ; 250 illustrations (33 col. Plates) ; 29 cm. Subjects: Lehman. Robert. 1892-1969 - Art collections - Catalogs. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York. N. Y) - Catalogs. Illumination of books and manuscripts - Italian. Northern European. European. Renaissance - Catalogs. Illustration ; Lettering & calligraphy ; History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400 ; History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600 ; Bibliographies. catalogues. discographies. Summary: This book presents the exceptional group of illuminations in the 'Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art'. The miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in this collection represent the major schools of illumination that flourished in Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Robert Lehman (1892-1969). one of the great private art collectors of the twentieth century. collected these illuminations as an extension of his remarkable collection of early European paintings and drawings. Among the works catalogued here are a miniature by Simon Marmion - the 'prince d'enluminure' - painted for a Breviary for Charles the Bold and Margaret of York. and. among the Italian illuminations. a Last Judgment in an Initial C by the great Florentine painter Lorenzo Monaco and an Adoration of the Magi by Francesco Marmitta. A self-portrait by Simon Bening and a 'Virgin and Child' by Francesco Morone are early examples of small paintings on parchment conceived as independent works of art rather than as illustrations for manuscripts. Also here are a leaf painted for the Hours of ftienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet. the most celebrated French painter of the fifteenth century. and a miniature Holy Face by Gerard David that was possibly created as an independent devotional image. All the illuminations in the Robert Lehman Collection are reproduced in color. and copious comparative illustrations supplement the extensive catalogue entries.ISBN: 0691059713. Weight in Kg appr.:

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