This delightful book describes and illustrates the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of nearly 40 illuminations from Italian choral manuscripts. Representing the work of Gothic and Renaissance masters both celebrated and anonymous, these precious paintings in miniature---with their compelling narrative, brilliant color, and shining gold---bear witness to exceptional aesthetic accomplishment. The choir books they illuminate are a rich source of information about the development of chant, whose unexpected transcendent tonalities have abiding appeal today. They also serve as primary sources for the study of the lives of religious communities and of the philosophy and faith that infused medieval Europe, offering a glimpse of Italy at the dawn of the Renaissance.
Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art (November 25, 2008 – April 12, 2009)
- ISBN10 0300141424
- ISBN13 9780300141429
- Publish Date 6 January 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 November 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 64
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780300141429