The Library of the Badia Fiesolana
Author: Angela Dressen
Publisher: Sismel
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9788884504890
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Author: Angela Dressen
Publisher: Sismel
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9788884504890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angela Dressen
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 3643908083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe monastery of the Badia Fiesolana on the outskirts of Florence has often been seen as a secondary project of the Medici. However new research has shown that the family's involvement in its financial, cultural, intellectual, religious and artistic affairs is central to its development under Cosimo and Lorenzo de'Medici during the 15th century. In the remarkable setting of the Badia, where art and architectural structure was studied anew, erudite abbots encountered learned humanists. The proceedings of a conference held in 2013 shed new light on cultural and scholarly life in and around Florence. Angela Dressen is Andrew W. Mellon Librarian at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Klaus Pietschmann is Professor for Musicology at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz.
Author: Heiko Damm
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-12-07
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9004242236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists’ education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves
Author: Athenæum Club (London, England). Library
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 554
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 334
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 548
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 3385540755
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 1186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher de Hamel
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2023-11-14
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0525559418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.
Author: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain). Library
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 330
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