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The history of Alexander the Great : an illuminated manuscript of Vasco da Lucena's French translation of the ancient text by Quintus Curtius Rufus / Scot McKendrick.
Fine Arts Library Folio ND3399.L58 M37 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKendrick, Scot.
- Series:
- Getty Museum monographs on illuminated manuscripts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Livre des fais d'Alexandre le Grand--Illustrations.
- Livre des fais d'Alexandre le Grand.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic--Flanders.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish.
- Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Historia Alexandri Magni--Illustrations.
- Curtius Rufus, Quintus.
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--Art.
- Alexander.
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts--California--Malibu.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts.
- J. Paul Getty Museum.
- California--Malibu.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 105 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 44 cm.
- Other Title:
- Alexander the Great
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [1996]
- Summary:
- This book reproduces in color all fourteen images from a fifteenth-century manuscript, now part of the J. Paul Getty Museum collection. One of the finest illuminated secular manuscripts produced in the Netherlands during the period, the manuscript features miniatures that illustrate important episodes from the short life of the legendary Macedonian general. Titled Les fais d'Alexandre le grant, the manuscript is itself a translation of a text attributed to first-century Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, whose Latin text is one of our principal literary sources for our knowledge of Alexander. McKendrick's authoritative text places the Getty's manuscript in its contexts as history and art and explains how the text and illuminations have much to tell us as well about the politics and aesthetics of the Burgundian Netherlands and the development of secular culture in Western Europe.
- Notes:
- Issued in a case.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 105).
- ISBN:
- 0892363711
- OCLC:
- 33971891
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