Imagining the past in France: history in manuscript painting, 1250-1500 / Elizabeth Morrison and Anne D. Hedeman ; with contributions by Elisabeth Antoine [and others]
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. 1st Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #340131
Physical description: xvii, 366 pages: colour illustrations; 32 cm. Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Nov. 16, 2010-Feb. 6, 2011. Contents: Introduction -- From sacred to secular: the origins of history illumination in France / Elizabeth Morrison -- Vernacular literature and the writing of history in medieval Francophonia / Keith Busby -- The textualization of the past in thirteenth-century French historical writing / Gabrielle M. Spiegel -- Reading the evidence in text and image: how history was read in late medieval France / Joyce Coleman -- Presenting the past: visual translation in thirteenth- to fifteenth-century France / Anne D. Hedeman -- Catalogue. pt. 1: Dawning of the vernacular 1250-1315; pt. 2: Collecting the past 1315-1400; pt. 3: Enriching history 1400-1500 ; pt. 4: Beyond French manuscripts. Subjects: History in art; Exhibitions. National characteristics, French, in art; Exhibitions. History in popular culture France; Exhibitions. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval France; Exhibitions. Illumination of books and manuscripts, French; Exhibitions. History in popular culture. France Historiography. Genre: Exhibition catalogues. Illustrated.
Price: €75.00