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History of Art

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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History of Art

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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