Sentences with phrase «illuminated manuscript»

For example, for our first anniversary (paper), I gave him the final ring of my 537 - link paper chain that I made to count down to our wedding, and he gave me a pocket - size reprint of my favorite illuminated manuscript.

The first historical evidence of a snowman, though we can presume they were built long before this, comes from an illuminated manuscript written in 1380.

The Morgan Library & Museum presents a special exhibition of an extremely rare Renaissance illuminated manuscript, the Prayer Book of Queen Claude de France, created around the time of her coronation in 1517.

Highlights include Austrian artist Maria Lassnig's «body - awareness paintings,» Swiss psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung's elaborate illuminated manuscript, Romanian artist Andra Ursuta's miniature models of her childhood home, and Fischli and Weiss's whimsical collection of over 200 unfired clay sculptures.

He uses a technique of hand - cutting and interlocks tiny fragments of hand - coloured paper to create a surface that resembles the clarity and intensity of an illuminated manuscript.

Christopher Gausby (New York, NY) is an artist, calligrapher, and writer who has reinvented the illuminated manuscript form to create book works meditating on philosophy and aesthetics.

Braziller: It came out of a visit to the Morgan Library, where they were holding an exhibition of the stunning illuminated manuscript The Hours of Catherine of Cleves.

Although not calligraphic in a conventional sense, he draws the words in this series as much as writes them, in some cases surrounding them with intricately hatched textures to create a kind of abstract illuminated manuscript.

Several of the paintings in the exhibition are derived from what I think of as illuminated manuscript paintings, so in other words I am trying to get in touch with this earlier art historical reality and trying to update it in my own sense... the idea of the scribe, the idea of the mosaic patterning, has to do with ancient craftsmanship being brought up to date and being filtered through my own artistic desire, I suppose, in terms of what I would like to see in the world.»

According to the catalogue, the illuminated manuscript on vellum is thought to hail from «Tuscany, probably Florence, 1490s.»

I'm pleased to have three «Illuminated Manuscript Pages» in this great group show at McKenzie Fine Art, up until 8/13/16.

Additional examples of Islamic art ran at The Morgan Library through January 29, including Persian script and illuminated manuscript with an emphasis on Sufi mysticism.

Much has been written about the ethereal sounds of Louisiana - born / Brooklyn - based musician Julianna Barwick, and often using a set of keywords that would be equally appropriate to an illuminated manuscript about the geography of paradise.

However, I vote for the Limbourg Brothers, who died halfway through an illuminated manuscript that helped invent the Northern Renaissance.

The website complements and expands on the exhibition, providing high - quality images of illuminated manuscript pages, historical information, and notes on their conservation and analysis using non-invasive scientific methods.

Ten years later, Pacino also painted four pages of an illuminated manuscript, on loan from the Morgan Library.

Among others, Stacy Leigh's deeply strange nudes at Fortnight Gallery; Nicholas Cueva's mysterious paintings at the Brooklyn community space Five Myles; Louis Fratino's weird realism at Thierry Goldberg; Jordan Casteel at Casey Kaplan; Maryam Hoseini's complex illuminated manuscript - like paintings at Rachel Uffner; Nina Chanel Abney's grand combinations of Stuart Davis and Jacob Lawrence, at Mary Boone and Jack Shainman (who's become one of the better galleries in the world); Marcia Marcus's prescient 1970s paintings at Eric Firestone; the teeny storefront 56 Henry mounted consecutive excellent shows of Cynthia Talmadge, Richard Tinkler, and Kate Shepherd; personal perennial faves shone, including Cary Leibowitz, Lisa Beck, Mira Schor, Keith Mayerson, Julian Lethbridge, Betty Tompkins, Jack Pierson, Ken Tisa, Tabboo, and Ashley Bickerton.

It can take an almost exclusively visual and material form, as illuminated manuscript, Chinese painting as poetry, or an artist's book.

It is the most important single illuminated manuscript acquired by the Morgan in the last twenty - five years and is on view in the East Room of the historic McKim building.

Join New York City based artist Max Greis for brief tour of the exhibition Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders then using a combination of paint and collage techniques participants will make their own illuminated manuscript scene featuring a monster of their creation.

Held denied a metaphorical interest in the letters; nevertheless, the pictorial device of singling out initials for monumental treatment has precedent, most notably in Celtic illuminated manuscript painting, where the scale and lavish decoration of the initial letter alert the reader to the import of the text that follows.

She is the self - published author of Beautiful Things that Happen to Ugly People, a synthesis of art and literature, a modern - day illuminated manuscript, about a simple soul named Paulie.

But if you did, it would probably focus more on the gloomy outlook for the illuminated manuscript industry than on the then - unfolding print revolution, which launched cascading innovations that would change everything and usher in the Age of Enlightenment.

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

Each segment of the border is filled with detailed illustrations, contributing to the illusion of the book as a medieval illuminated manuscript.

From the Pulitzer Prize — winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.

McCarthy's primary source for that novel, an extraordinary illuminated manuscript by a member of the Glanton gang entitled My Confession, became an important source for me as I retraced my ancestors» journey along the Southern Road.

the Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript dating from.

... have the kids make art for the nursery - frame it in cardboard painted a nice color... if you know the name (or wait until you do) have the religious background written out nicely for framing (my sister gave me the first bible passage featuring my son's name to frame, she color copied it out of a fancy illuminated manuscript type book - i'm not even religious and it floored me)

For centuries art and scripture were intertwined in the church, not only in the production of illuminated manuscripts but in the making of buildings, statuary and drama.

Funniest: Brain Pickings with «Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Illuminated Manuscripts»

Medieval scribes frothed up eggs with water and added colors to produce elaborate illuminated manuscripts.

In medieval times, however, there was a widespread knowledge of artists» materials that contributed deeper meaning to objects such as the Metz Pontifical (c. 1316) and the Macclesfield Psalter (c. 1330), both beautiful illuminated manuscripts now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as the Thornham Parva Retable, which was also restored at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, and the Wilton Diptych, Richard II's iconic portable altarpiece.

Pitgirl and Assassin bear on a banner that would illuminate any manuscript.

In the end, there were four scenes: A serf's house where the men discussed the tragedy while a mother nursed a dying child; an apothecary's store, where members of the medical profession debated cures for the plague; a church, where monks considered causes of the illness while they worked on illuminated manuscripts and where a priest was indifferent to a parishioner's pleas for help; and finally, a central market square where traveling Franciscan monks declared their beliefs about the plague, flagellants whipped themselves and blamed the Jews, and an old woman went crazy as she ranted about «the end of the world.»

There are loads of examples on this powerpoint of various medieval letters and illuminated manuscripts to copy from to give the students enough resources to work from.

As proved by ancient illuminated manuscripts, when you look after a book it can last hundreds of years, unlike the content on your Kindle.

The monk pursues knowledge through his illuminated manuscripts, while the cat pursues, well, mice.

I've also always loved the idea of illuminated manuscripts — embellished, overstuffed books.

We don't know why images of armed knights fighting snails are common in 13th and 14th century illuminated manuscripts.

When Mollusks Attack We don't know why images of armed knights fighting snails are common in 13th and 14th century illuminated manuscripts.

The museum also has plenty of ancient weapons, jewelry, illuminated manuscripts and Celtic relics for a less macabre glimpse into Irish history.

Among them are bejeweled ceremonial objects, elaborately inlaid desks, illuminated manuscripts, and statuettes made of pearls.

The library's collection focuses on 4th - 20th Western traditions and includes info about paintings, prints, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts and drawings.

New York Investments 20th - century painting; emerging artists; illuminated manuscripts; Late medieval and Early Renaissance painting Top 200 appearance: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

The Picture Bible — one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts produced in thirteenth - century France — was disbound for conservation and study, offering visitors a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to view twenty - six of the book's pages in a single exhibition.

On view in the East Room are examples from The Morgan Library & Museum's extraordinary collection of medieval illuminated manuscripts, rare printed books and bindings, and handwritten manuscripts of great writers, artists, and composers from the Renaissance to the present day.

In addition to illuminated manuscripts, music scores, and personal correspondence from the Morgan's collection, this rotation features a selection of important American documents from the Gilder Lehrman Institute.

Appearing both delicately miniature in illuminated manuscripts and towering in the gleaming glass of cathedral windows, the wheel served as a constant reminder of Fortuna's grasp on medieval denizens.

I have also omitted extraordinary works, such as «In What Distant Sky,» the specially commissioned video piece, filmed at Mass MoCA, by Megan and Murray McMillan; Christopher Gausby's illuminated manuscripts recording his own philosophical musings and mappings; and Rachel Sussman's hall - length diagram, «[Selected] History of the Space Time Continuum.»