THE PAINTED BOOK IN RENAISSANCE ITALY/ 1450

Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance, spanning the momentous shift from manuscript production to print. This major survey, by a leading authority on medieval and renaissance book illumination, gives the first comprehensive account in English of an immensely creative and relatively little-studied art form. Jonathan J. G. Alexander des cribes key illuminated manuscripts and printed books from the period and explores the social and material worlds in which they were produced. ...[Read more]