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Painting the Page in the Age of Print: Central European Manuscript Illumination of the Fifteenth Century

Painting the Page in the Age of Print: Central European Manuscript Illumination of the Fifteenth Century

          
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The history of the book in the late Middle Ages is associated especially with Gutenberg's momentous invention of printing with movable type. Printing, however, hardly replaced the manuscript book overnight; in respect to content, materials, format, decoration, dissemination, and technique, the fifteenth century in German-speaking lands witnessed an extraordinary range of innovation and experimentation. Nonetheless, over a century of scholarship has tended to dismiss the illuminated manuscripts produced in central Europe between 1400 and the Reformation, the vast majority of them unknown beyond a small group of specialists, as mediocre manifestations of a culture in decline. This book -- originally published in German to accompany a series of exhibitions in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from 2015 to 2017 -- was written to challenge these prejudices and the weight of tradition they represent. It contains four wide-ranging essays that for the first time give an overview of fifteenth-century illumination in central Europe, from the overweening luxury of the manuscripts produced at the court of Wenzel IV in Prague in the late fourteenth century to the classical texts illuminated in the context of northern European humanism in the early sixteenth century. After an introduction that considers issues of politics and patronage as well as changing patterns of production, the second chapter focuses on religious manuscripts, both those for ecclesiastical institutions as well as those for private individuals, and the third on secular manuscripts ranging from works of high literature to practical texts on such topics as alchemy and astrology, cartography and travel, civic and regional history, medicine, and law. A final chapter considers the role of illumination in the decoration of the Gutenberg Bible and, consequently, in the emergence of novel approaches to book design and the dissemination of information in the latter half of the fifteenth century.
About the Author:

Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Ph.D. Yale University, 1987), since 2000 the Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture at Harvard University, taught previously at the University of Toronto and Oberlin College. Among his principal areas of interest are the art of female monasticism in the Middle Ages, medieval manuscript illumination, the interrelationships between text and image and between art, theology, mysticism and medieval image theory, as well as, most recently, medieval diagrams. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also a member of the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and a corresponding member of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. He holds an honorary degree from the University of Bern.

Eberhard Konig studied the history of art, classical archaeology and history in Tubingen, Paris, and Oxford before receiving his degree from the University in Bonn (1975). Prior to assuming a professorship at the Freie Universitat in Berlin (1986-2012), he taught at the University of Kiel (1976-1981). The world's foremost expert on the illumination of German incunables as well as an authority on French and Flemish manuscript illumination of the later Middle Ages, he received the Prix Eugene Carriere of the Academie francaise in 1999 for his book on the Tres Belles Heures de Notre-Dame of Jean, duc de Berry. In 2009 he was named a Chevalier of the l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Having studied art history, classical archaeology and medieval Latin in Berlin, Bonn, and Munich, Robert Suckale (Berlin) served as an assistant professor in Munich (1970-1980), professor in Bamberg (1980-1990), and from 1990 to 2003 at the Technische Universitat in Berlin. Although he has published widely on medieval architecture, sculpture, painting and manuscript illumination, he is an encyclopedist, interested in the entire field of European art and architecture until the present day, and in the history and theory of the history of art. An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Directeur d'etudes associe de l'Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, he also holds an honorary degree from the University of London (Courtauld Institute).

Gude Suckale-Redlefsen (Berlin) studied the history of art and Early Christian and classical archaeology in Freiburg i. Br. and Munich, where, after graduating in 1970, she worked in the Stadtmuseum. A long-term grant from the Menil Foundation permitted her to publish her study on The Black Saint Maurice (1987) in their series, "The Image of the Black." From 1987 to 2003 she was employed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to catalogue the medieval illuminated manuscripts in the State Library Bamberg from the Carolingian, Ottonian, and Romanesque eras. In addition to contributing to facsimile editions and exhibition catalogues, she also maintains an interest in secular imagery and the role of women in medieval art.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780888442086
  • Publisher: PIMS
  • Publisher Imprint: PIMS
  • Edition: Studies and Texts
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 1676 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0888442084
  • Publisher Date: 25 Apr 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 262 mm
  • No of Pages: 364
  • Series Title: Studies and Texts
  • Sub Title: Central European Manuscript Illumination of the Fifteenth Century
  • Width: 211 mm


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