One of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belles Heures (1405?1408/9) is the only manuscript executed in its entirety by the famed Limbourg brothers. Commissioned by its mag
One of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belle Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry (ca. 1405?1408/9), is the only manuscript with miniatures executed entirely by the fam
The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1980?81. Toward the end of Middle Ages, all aspects of life had become so
Paintings by Renaissance masters Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Durer, and Hans Holbein the Younger are among the works featured in this lavish volume, the first to comprehensively study the larges
In all eras, objects of everyday life are taken for granted: they are used and discarded, rarely dicussed or preserved. It is, generally, a period's extraordinary works of art and architecture that ha