Many of these manuscripts are beautifully illuminated, and sample images can be viewed on the VFL Manuscripts page of the Special Collections VFL Library Research Guide. An online database that ...

Five fragmented masterpieces are now whole again, revealing new insights into art history and their creators’ original intent ...

Six years ago, a rare 16th-century illuminated manuscript showed up at auction ... our understanding is different,” Waterman, a German Renaissance art historian at the Germanisches ...

Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections comprises a total of 260 bound volumes, single leaves, and cuttings from nineteen Boston-area libraries and museums. It is the largest ...

At the stately Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan, a 15th-century illuminated manuscript ... and department head of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, sat down with Hyperallergic to leaf ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Renaissance artists bring a lushly ... LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Think of an illuminated manuscript and a few stock images come to mind: ornate capital letters, high-browed ...

Producing illuminated manuscripts was a complex and costly ... However, by 1515 – the year King Francois I, France’s first Renaissance monarch, came to the throne – commercial scribes ...

With piped-in sounds and fragrant scents, the bird and fruit illustrations of ornate manuscripts spring to life at the Museum ...

KELLY: Ross King talking there about his latest book, "The Bookseller Of Florence: The Story Of The Manuscripts That Illuminated The Renaissance." Ross King, thank you. KING: Pleasure - thank you.

The manuscript is half of a rare illuminated copy of the Mishneh Torah, a key 12th-century legal work by the philosopher Maimonides. It is believed to have been created in northern Italy in the ...