Sentences with phrase «book of the hour»

The Book Of Hours has an enamelled gold metal cover studded with gems such as rubies, turquoise and tourmaline and contains parchment painted with 20 religious images and prayers to be said throughout the day.

One of my favorite pictures of the shepherds is a detail from a 15th - century Dutch Book of Hours.

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God: I am EATING UP this translation by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, which includes an informative introduction and a series of delightful notes written by the translators to correspond with each poem.

This is one reason why I love combining Episcopal worship on Sundays, with good, old - fashioned Bible studies on weeknights, with private «quiet time» with my Bible and a book of hours each morning and / or evenings.

If you're looking to add something new to your prayer schedule, I recommend A Book of Hours by Thomas Merton or Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson - Hartgrove, and Enuma Okoro.

It is well symbolized by Elshtain's colorful cover illustration from the Book of Hours of the Duke de Berry.

Lately I've also been enjoying the prayers found in A Book of Hours by Thomas Merton and the devotional readings and blessings written by Jan Richardson in In the Sanctuary of Women.

Rilke's Book of Hours has become one of my most treasured books.

For a reel or so, the eye is content to gaze at the extremely interior «exteriors,» the gilded toy castles and knights in real armor traversing the sinuousities of what appears to be a pop - up Book of Hours strung out along a series of miniature golf courses.

The book, «Book of Hours» was found in a library in the country of the Netherlands.

My college had a quote by John Ruskin engraved on the library walls that read, «All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.»

For example, I created a journal with a cover based on a 15th century French book of hours.

The illuminated manuscript was from a Christian prayer book called the Book of Hours, prominent in the Middle Ages.

More recently Holstad has examined devotional texts (The Book of Hours, 2013), the various types of borders, boundaries and constraints in our environment that impact our lives, from the political and governmental to the societal and personal (Corrections, 2014) and the visual and emotional encoding and decoding of the domestic sphere versus the external environment.

«The Written Trace» at Paul Kasmin even manages a Renaissance Book of Hours.

Was a Book of Hours a woman's own personal Hell or a prayer for human warmth?

The Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux, dating from around 1325, are set apart page by page so that experts have a chance to restore and rebind this most delicate Book of Hours.

There is also a miniature Book of Hours from 1474, written by Francesco Borromeo and delicately illustrated by Ambrogio de Predis, a collaborator of Leonardo da Vinci.

The Nasher Museum's Book of Hours was installed the European Gallery of The New Galleries.

This refined Book of Hours, use of Rome, contains four full - page and 38 small paintings executed in grisaille with touches of additional jewel - like colour and highlighting in gold.

The Morgan Library and Museum has named Roger S. Wieck, an expert in medieval books of Hours, as head of its department of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.

Lennox Contemporary Gallery in Toronto proudly presents an exhibition by OCAD instructor George A. Walker featuring his new book: Book of Hours, a tragic New York novel told with 99 wood engravings.

Highlights include Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1413) by the Limbourg Brothers, and the Book of Hours of Etienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet.

The site - specific installation uses blocks of color to represent different days or seasons of the year, similar to the medieval Books of Hours displayed in the museum's Miracles in Miniature: The Art of the Master of Claude de France.

The Book of Hours takes us from September 10th 2001 until the morning of September 11th.

Finch's talk at the New School will focus on the artist's various public and large - scale installations like A Certain Slant of Light (2014 - 15), a site - specific installation at the Morgan Library inspired by its collection of medieval Books of Hours; Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning (2014), a commission for the National September 11 Memorialand Museum composed of 2,983 individual watercolors representing the artist's recollection of the sky on September 11, 2001; Painting Air (2012), an installation of more than 100 panels of suspended glass inspired by the colors of Claude Monet's garden at Giverny; and The River That Flows Both Ways (2009), a permanent installation on New York's High Line featuring an existing series of windows which Finch transformed with 700 individual panes of glass representing the water conditions on the Hudson River over 700 minutes in a single day.

Highlights include the Registrum Gregorii (983), the famous Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry and miniatures from the Book of Hours of Etienne Chevalier, by Jean Fouquet.

She has created unique books, including: Fountainhead (1991); The Vitreous Body (2001); and Untitled (Book of Hours)(1986).

Among previous projects are A Certain Slant of Light (2014 - 15), a large - scale installation at The Morgan Library & Museum inspired by its collection of medieval Books of Hours; Trying To Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning (2014), composed of 2,983 individual watercolors representing the artist's recollection of the sky on September 11, 2001; There Is Another Sky (2014), which transformed a formerly dark alley into an urban forest sanctuary at South Lake Union, Seattle; Painting Air (2012), an installation of more than 100 panels of suspended glass inspired by the colors of Claude Monet's garden at Giverny; and The River That Flows Both Ways (2009), a permanent installation composed of an existing series of windows transformed with 700 individual panes of glass representing the water conditions on the Hudson River over 700 minutes in a single day.

SOLD $ 13,605,000 — THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK, a Book of Hours SOLD $ 8,901,000 — Jacopo da Ponte, The Adoration of the Shepherds SOLD $ 3,637,000 — Jan Provost, The Annunciation

«Books of hours» were popular throughout Northern Europe, indicating the importance of religion during the 15th and 16th centuries, and the people's desire for a direct relationship with God.»

Miniature from a Book of Hours, Belgium, probably Ghent, ca. 1490, Illuminated by Alexander Bening.

The show, «the book of hours,» will include sound installations by Martin Maugeais.

Comprising fifty - eight examples in manuscript or printed editions, Painted Prayers: Medieval and Renaissance Books of Hours from the Morgan Library examined the tremendous popularity of Books of Hours through an exploration of their customary prayers and the beautiful pictures that traditionally accompany these texts.

Wieck, associate curator and curator in the department, is an expert on medieval books of Hours.

American artist Spencer Finch (b. 1962) has created a large - scale, site - specific installation at the Morgan inspired by its great collection of medieval Books of Hours — beautiful, hand - painted works that served as personal prayer books for different times of the day and different periods of the year.

Book of Hours in Latin and French.

Not exact matches

Bill Gates has a habit of reading for at least one hour each night, so he makes his way through a good number of books.

But scrutinize the deals: 2 in 3 fares drop within 24 hours of your initial search or booking, per Hopper.com.

So I book an hour - long tour with Tim Gondorf of Sightjogging Frankfurt, who meets me on the waterfront to show me the best of his city.

Ferriss sent me a signed copy of his book The 4 - Hour Workweek with a note thanking me.

Recent data from travel site Hopper.com found 2 in 3 fares drop within 24 hours of the original search or booking, saving an average 14 percent.

The platform gives travelers the option to book a flight seven days in advance or up to an hour ahead of time.

For the $ 119 annual fee, Prime members gets a slew of benefits (which definitely range in usefulness): free two - day shipping, free same - day shipping, and free two - hour delivery on eligible items (of which there are many), exclusive rewards and discounts, Prime Video, Prime Music, online photo storage, music and books, and about 20 other perks.

European aerospace giant Airbus is debuting its on - demand helicopter booking platform, Voom, in Mexico City on Thursday in an effort to drum up demand for choppers among well - heeled urban commuters sick of spending hours in traffic.

When McConlogue leaves to go to work, Leo spends 3 - 4 hours on his own, practicing writing code and reading one of the three javascript books McConlogue gave him alongside a Samsung Chromebook.

Customers can rent a room for the night, but they also have the option of booking a room by the hour.

Currently, the couple lives off of cash flow from investments — rental income, dividends, and interest — as well as advertising and book sales on their travel blog, which they spend just two hours a day maintaining.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

On a warm spring afternoon, Phil Knight found the time to meet up with me at the Le Germain Hotel in downtown Toronto while in Canada for just a few hours promoting his book Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike.