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Book of Beasts The Bestiary in the Medieval World

Morrison Elizabeth, Grollemond Larisa

ISBN: HB: 9781606065907, Getty Publications, June 2019
356 pp., 25x15 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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Knight for the Ages Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry

Morrison Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781606065754, Getty Publications, November 2018
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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Ivory Mirror The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe

Perkinson Stephen, Speakman Naomi, Baker Katherine, Morrison Elizabeth, Solberg Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300225952, Yale University Press, August 2017
240 pp., 24.8x19 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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Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East

Stahuljak Zrinka, Morrison Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781606064634, Getty Publications, January 2016
176 pp., 25x15 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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Imagining the Past in France History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

Morrison Elizabeth, Hedeman Anne D.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060292, ISBN: HB: 9781606060285, Getty Publications, November 2010
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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Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context

Morrison Elizabeth, Kren Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780892368525, Getty Publications, April 2007
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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