Studies of Renaissance miniaturists in Venice / Lilian Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Lilian.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miniature painting, Italian--Italy--Venice.

Miniature painting, Italian.

Miniature painting, Renaissance--Italy--Venice.

Miniature painting, Renaissance.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian--Italy--Venice.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy--Venice.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance.

Italy--Venice.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xiii, 786 pages, xvi pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pindar, 2003.

Summary:

The present volume collects Professor Armstrong's papers on miniaturists active in Venice and Northern Italy in the 15th and early 16th centuries, and on the impact of the new invention of printing on these artists and their patrons. Included are papers on Marco Zoppo, primarily a monumental"painter, who nevertheless also painted in manuscripts and incunables. The studies variously identify miniaturists and designers of woodcuts through stylistic groupings, trace iconographic traditions for Pliny's Natural History and Petrarch's De viris illustribus, demonstrate the importance of heraldry for studying patronage of Venetian printed books, and explore the distribution of Venetian incunables throughout Europe based on analysis of their decoration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

189982863X :

OCLC:

54781868