the Brussels Horloge de Sapience - Peter Rolfe Monks - 1990

The book discusses principally the iconography and text of a mid 15th century copy of the mustical treatise Horloge de Sapience in the most sumptuously illuminated ms. known of the text.
Each of t he 36 illuminations is discussed in turn, with reference to their pictorial traditions, to the French textual matter and to a unique contemporary commentary, called the Déclaretiob des histoires.
The Déclaration is one of the earliest essays in art criticism to survive. The study is rendered useful for teachers and scholars by an Englisch translatikon of the text of t he Déclaration, which enables the reader to see the illustrations trhought the eyes of a 15th century critic.

Uitgever: E.J.Brill 1990
Auteur: Peter Rolfe Monks
223 Blz.
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