Prof. Charles Hope | Artwatch. Could the Louvre’s “Virgin and St. Anne” provide the proof that the (London) National Gallery’s “Virgin of the Rocks” is not by Leonardo da Vinci? When the National Gallery’s restored “Virgin of the Rocks” was pronounced an entirely autograph Leonardo we were left reeling with incredulity. Picture restorers rarely decline opportunities to claim “discoveries” but could they really be claiming an ability to make a picture an autograph Leonardo simply by thinning its varnish? During the media frenzy of the National Gallery’s £1.5bn Leonardo blockbuster, its chief restorer, Larry Keith, was asked if a distinctive Leonardo brushstroke had emerged.
“No”, he said, proof of authenticity lay in the picture’s internal relationships. Given that those relationships differ markedly from the ones present in the Louvre’s unquestionably autograph “Virgin of the Rocks”, what accounted for the discrepancies? Ann Pizzorusso writes: The St. Using a date of 1510 for the “Virgin and St. Ann Pizzorusso. Famous Paintings Reviewed. Audubon Prints at the New York Historical Society Posted by Susan Benford An art history blog post from Famous Paintings Reviewed. The New York Historical Society show, Audubon's Aviary: Parts Unknown, showcases a breathtaking display of Audubon prints. f you've ever had the slightest interest in birds or the work of John James Audubon (1785-1851), this show will stoke it.
The New York Historical Society functioned until 1870 as both an art and a natural history museum. It owns all 435 watercolor models for the 435 plates in the John James Aububon. Priceless John James Audubon book, The Birds of America, engraved by Robert Havell. John James Audubon was America's first famous watercolorist whose efforts to preserve wildlife are belatedly being appreciated.
Ornothological illustration by showing all birds life-sized. His astonishing mastery of watercolor is reason alone to see this show, which lasts until May 26, 2014. Right: John James Aububon. Modern Art in Nazi Germany Adolf Ziegler. Right. — ART HISTORY SALON. Links | History of Art Enrichment at Tallis. Tumblr Art Blogs To Follow. Medieval Illumination. Academic Nudes of the 19th Century.
Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts: Illuminated manuscripts. We are delighted to announce another forty-four Greek manuscripts have been digitised. As always, we are most grateful to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, Sam Fogg, the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, the Thriplow Charitable Trust, the Friends of the British Library, and our other generous benefactors for contributing to the digitisation project.
Happy exploring! Add MS 31921, Gospel Lectionary with ekphonetic notation (Gregory-Aland l 336), imperfect, 12th century, with some leaves supplied in the 14th century. Formerly in Blenheim Palace Library. Add MS 34059, Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 939), with ekphonetic neumes. 12th century Add MS 36660, Old Testament lectionary with ekphonetic notation, and fragments from a New Testament lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1490). 12th century. Add MS 37320, Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 2290). 10th century, with additions from the 16th-17th century. Add MS 37486/1, Detached binding from Add MS 37486, 18th century. Seymour de Ricci Digitized Archive. SCETI Home Page. Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: About Us.
Education BA in English, University of California, BerkeleyM.Phil and D.Phil, English Language and Literature, 1100-1500 University of Oxford, 2005 Interests I work on Old English, Middle English, Latin, and Anglo-Norman Literature, particularly lesser-known texts sitting at the blurry intersections of historiography, hagiography, and romance. My research focuses on the material and ideological processes of textual composition, transmission, and circulation in medieval England. Paleography, codicology, and philology ground my investigations of translation, redaction, revision, and list-making. Selected Works “The Auchinleck Manuscript,” in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature, ed. “Encountering the Dartmouth Brut in the Midst of History,” in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 3:2 (2014), 323- 330. “The Archive,” in Medievalism: Key Critical Terms, ed. Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England.
Book of Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Description This book of hours was written in Paris in the mid-15th century. Books of hours are devotional books for lay persons wishing to have a prayer schedule parallel to that of monastic communities, with prayers appointed for different times of the day. Such books were intended to facilitate direct communion with God and the saints, rather than exclusively through the church and the ordained clergy. Along with selections from the Psalms, they normally include a calendar of major feasts and saints’ days, selections from the Gospels, and prayers for the dead. Language Title in Original Language Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae Place Europe > France > Paris Time Period Topic Religion > Christian practice & observance > Devotional literature Additional Subjects Type of Item Manuscripts Physical Description 212 leaves : illustrations ; 12 x 9 x 4.5 centimeters Collection HMML Rare Books Institution Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.
Digital Scriptorium. Hypertext Book of Hours - Introduction. The calendar used in Europe during the Middle Ages followed a system developed originally by the ancient Romans. In the Roman system, the year was divided into twelve months, as it is in the modern calendar, but the days of the months were not numbered consecutively as they are today. Instead, three key days were identified by name: Kalends (the 1st), Ides (the 13th or 15th, depending on the month), and None (the ninth day before Ides). All other days were related to these two, by saying, for example, "today is the second day before the Ides of March. " One important difference between the Roman system and the one employed during the Middle Ages was that medieval Europeans superimposed on the Roman calendar a list of the Christian feast days. The twenty-fifth day in the month of December, for example, was equated with the Feast of Christ's Nativity ("Christmas"), the fourteenth of February was called "St.
Valentine's Day," and so on. [see the Online Calendar of Saints Days] Book of hours. Book of hours, Paris c. 1410. Miniature of the Annunciation, with the start of Matins in the Little Office, the beginning of the texts after the calendar in the usual arrangement. Books of hours were usually written in Latin (the Latin name for them is horae), although there are many entirely or partially written in vernacular European languages, especially Dutch.
The English term primer is usually now reserved for those books written in English. Tens of thousands of books of hours have survived to the present day, in libraries and private collections throughout the world. The typical book of hours is an abbreviated form of the breviary which contained the Divine Office recited in monasteries. History[edit] Even this level of decoration was more rich than that of most books, though less than the lavish amounts of illumination in luxury books, which are those most often seen reproduced. The book of hours has its ultimate origin in the Psalter, which monks and nuns were required to recite. Home | Sessions | CAA 2012 Annual Conference | College Art Association. Surface fragments. FONDAZIONE ZERI | CATALOGO : Ricerca semplice. Three Pipe Problem. Alberti’s Window | An Art History Blog.
Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Antonio del Pollaiuolo (Florence, 1431-1498, Rome) Portrait of a Lady Ca. 1460-65 Oil and tempera on poplar panel 20 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin NEW YORK – Giuliano de’ Medici went to church on Sunday, April 26, 1478, not realizing that it was the last thing he would ever do. Known as the “Prince of Youth” of the Italian city-state of Florence, Giuliano de’ Medici was a charming young man with aristocratic good looks.
He was also the brother of the brilliant, if homely, Lorenzo de’ Medici, the de facto ruler of Florence. That made him a marked man. As the Medici brothers stood amid a crowd of several thousand worshipers under the famous dome of the Florence Cathedral, four assassins crept toward them. Recruited by the rival Pazzi family and a network of enemies, the hit-squad closed in for the kill. Acts of violence like the Pazzi Conspiracy have occurred with depressing regularity throughout history. Pietro di Spagna (active in Urbino, ca. 1474-82?)