This publication offers the phenomenal crew of illuminations within the Robert Lehman assortment on the Metropolitan Museum of artwork. The miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts during this assortment characterize the foremost colleges of illumination that flourished in Europe from the fourteenth to the 16th century. Robert Lehman (1892-1969), one of many nice inner most artwork creditors of the 20th century, accumulated those illuminations as an extension of his awesome selection of early ecu work and drawings.
Among the works catalogued listed here are a miniature via Simon Marmion--the "prince d'enluminure"--painted for a Breviary for Charles the daring and Margaret of York, and, one of the Italian illuminations, a Last Judgment in an preliminary C through the good Florentine painter Lorenzo Monaco and an Adoration of the Magi by means of Francesco Marmitta. A Self-Portrait by Simon Bening and a Virgin and Child by means of Francesco Morone are early examples of small work on parchment conceived as self sufficient artistic endeavors instead of as illustrations for manuscripts. additionally listed here are a leaf painted for the Hours of ftienne Chevalier through Jean Fouquet, the main celebrated French painter of the 15th century, and a miniature Holy Face by way of Gerard David that used to be probably created as an self reliant devotional photograph. the entire illuminations within the Robert Lehman assortment are reproduced in colour, and copious comparative illustrations complement the vast catalogue entries. this can be the 7th in a projected sequence of 16 volumes that might catalogue the full Robert Lehman Collection.
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