[Scriptoris] Painted Prayers Exhibit at the Kimball

[Elaine Crittenden]

Two books that might be of interest in this thread:

1.
Plummer, John. "The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Introduction and
Commentaries." George Brazillier, NY,
(N/D, but from the Lib. of Cong #, 1966)

Library of Congress # 66-23096
It is "Reproduced from the Illuminated Manuscript Belonging to THE GUENNOL
COLLECTION and THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY".

(My copy is a hardback in a box that I got at a used book store years ago.

2.
Wieck, Roger S.  "Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and
Renaissance Art." NY: George Brazilliler,Inc. in
association with The Pierpont Morgan Library

ISBN 0-8076-1418-1 (cloth) and ISBN 0-8076-1419-X (paperback)

Noted:
"First published on the occasion of the exhibition "Medieval Bestseller: The
Book of Hours" at the Pierpont Morgan Library from 17 September 1997 to 4
January 1998

(My copy is noted as a first edition, clothbound w/ dust jacket. I bought it
new.)
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I enjoy them both.
Thanks, Ceinwen for telling us in time that we can go see the real things!

Lady Lete Bithespring, Steppes in Ansteorra (Dallas, Texas)

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>From: "M TURNAGE" <ceinwen7777777 at hotmail.com>
>To: scriptoris at ansteorra.org
>Subject: [Scriptoris] Painted Prayers Exhibit at the Kimball
>Date: Wed Aug 27,2003,8:14 AM
>

> Greetings Scribes.
>
> There is an exhibit coming to the Kimball Art Museum in Ft. Worth October
> 12, 2003–January 18, 2004 called "Painted Prayers: Medieval and Reniassance
> Books of Hours from the Morgan Library."  Here is the write-up from the
> website.  This is one I won't miss.
>
> In service,
> Ceinwen~
> ---------------------
> This exhibition features 58 of the finest manuscript and printed books of
> hours from the collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library—one of the richest
> repositories of such works in the world. Books of hours—prayer books used by
> ordinary men and women—were produced, by hand and by press, in greater
> quantities than any other type of book from the mid-thirteenth to the
> mid-sixteenth centuries. They were “bestsellers,” more popular than even the
> Bible. Among the primary vehicles of artistic expression, books of hours
> contain some of the most beautiful paintings and prints of the medieval and
> Renaissance periods.
>
> Painted Prayers examines the iconography of books of hours, the artists who
> illustrated them, and the central role of the books as religious texts in
> the lives of their owners. More books of hours survive from the late Middle
> Ages than any other cultural artifact. Medieval life—and death—cannot be
> understood without examining this type of devotional work, owned, in various
> forms, by so many people and commonly known by heart. The prayers in books
> of hours, centered around the Mother of God, are the great literary
> expression of the cult of the Virgin Mary. They are also reflections of the
> society that produced them: from the frequent appearance of invocations to
> Saints Sebastian, Apollonia, and Margaret, for example, we learn something
> of the chronic problem of plague, the annoyance of toothache, and the
> dangers of childbirth.
>
> Among the beautiful and representative works shown in the exhibition, two
> are particularly important. The luxuriant Hours of Catherine of Cleves (c.
> 1440) is the greatest of all Dutch books of hours. The Hours of Cardinal
> Alessandro Farnese, completed in 1546 by Giulio Clovio, so dazzled Giorgio
> Vasari that in his Lives of the Artists (1568) he called this most famous
> manuscript of the Italian High Renaissance one of the “marvels of Rome.”
>
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