The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume IV : Illuminations
The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume IV : Illuminations
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Author(s): D'Ancona, Mirella Levi
Hindman, Sandra
Palladino, Pia
Saffiotti, Maria Francesca
ISBN No.: 9780691059716
Pages: 256
Year: 199803
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 143.52
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Status: Available

This book presents the exceptional group of illuminations in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in this collection represent the major schools of illumination that flourished in Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Robert Lehman (1892-1969), one of the great private art collectors of the twentieth century, collected these illuminations as an extension of his remarkable collection of early European paintings and drawings. Among the works catalogued here are a miniature by Simon Marmion--the "prince d'enluminure"--painted for a Breviary for Charles the Bold and Margaret of York, and, among the Italian illuminations, a "Last Judgment in an Initial C" by the great Florentine painter Lorenzo Monaco and an "Adoration of the Magi" by Francesco Marmitta. A "Self-Portrait "by Simon Bening and a "Virgin and Child" by Francesco Morone are early examples of small paintings on parchment conceived as independent works of art rather than as illustrations for manuscripts. Also here are a leaf painted for the Hours of ftienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet, the most celebrated French painter of the fifteenth century, and a miniature "Holy Face" by Gerard David that was possibly created as an independent devotional image. All the illuminations in the Robert Lehman Collection are reproduced in color, and copious comparative illustrations supplement the extensive catalogue entries. This is the seventh in a projected series of sixteen volumes that will catalogue the entire Robert Lehman Collection.



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