La Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) guarda una colección de 156 manuscritos iluminados franceses y flamencos fechados entre los siglos IX y XVI de enorme interés histórico y artístico. El ...

El Centro de Estudios Benaventanos "Ledo del Pozo" acaba de publicar la versión española del libro póstumo, y auténtico testamento intelectual, de John Williams: Visions of the End in Medieval ...

The magnificent Burke collection of Italian manuscript paintings has been built over twenty years, and includes works by many of the greatest artists of the Italian medieval and Renaissance periods. ...

Even in the digital age, the printed poster retains an important, much-loved role in connecting with audiences in a way that both entertains and informs. The V&A was one of ...

En el año 2010 tiene lugar la publicación de las RDA (siglas en inglés de Resource Description and Access); tras un periodo de prueba se decide postergar su implementación definitiva ...

Pour la première fois en Suisse, deux expositions simultanées déploient une vaste sélection de manuscrits enluminés issus de plus dune quinzaine de bibliothèques suisses. Offrant un panorama unique sur un ...

This books describes the life of Elisa ben Abraham Cresques, known to many as the author of the Catalan Atlas, and focuses on the Jewish aspects of his fascinating career, ...

The destruction on the morning of All Saints Day 1755 of the heart of the city of Lisbon by an earthquake, tidal wave and the fires that followed was a ...

Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books - like today's museums - preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many ...

The lowly placard, a quick and efficient device used to spread news or advertise goods, ascended to the level of a respected art form in the late 1800's in France. ...

In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalems libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the worlds most enduring ideas ...

Este libro es fruto de las discusiones, de los intercambios de pareceres, conversaciones y reflexiones que se han dado en el seno de la Red de Excelencia âeurosúLibro medieval hispánicoâeuros, ...

Like England's Arthur and France's Charlemagne, the Cid is Spain's national hero, and for centuries he has served as an ideal model of citizenship. All Spaniards are familiar with the ...

The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the ...

David Oppenheim (1664-1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all of which have survived and are housed in ...

This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis ...

Nicholas Herman est né à Ottawa et a fait ses études aux universités de Toronto, de Bologne et de New York. Il a également été associé à la Pierpont Morgan ...

What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms offers definitions of the key ...

Cet ouvrage richement illustré présente plus de cinquante manuscrits enluminés conservés dans les collections de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library Exécutés entre 700 et 1200, ...

Accompanying an exhibition in New York (17 - 23 October 2018) this lavishly illustrated publication explores four extraordinary books that have all survived from the Middle Ages. Introduction and Catalogue ...