Pictorial Invention in Netherlandish Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages: The Play Of Illusion And Meaning (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts)

Pictorial Invention in Netherlandish Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages: The Play Of Illusion And Meaning (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts)
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54
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904291615X
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National Geographic
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Каллиграфия

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Book DescriptionHand-painted books produced in the Low Countries during the late Middle Ages are dazzingly inventive, widely admired both in their own time and today. The makers of Flemish illuminated manuscripts experimented, sometimes flamboyantly, with all aspects of their design, manipulating elements of their format, layout, script, decoration and illustration in radically new and challenging ways. In this book, James H. Marrow discusses prominent features of many of the most exuberant illuminated manuscripts created by leading Flemish illuminators of the 15th and the 16th centuries, considering both the playful ways in which the makers of these books reconfigured their design and the ways they exploited these innovations to define and convey the meaning of their contents more effectively. Marrow considers how the designers of these manuscripts broke down the barriers between the different components of the book; how the shapes of some manuscripts became a kind of image; how...

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