[Scriptoris] Painted Prayers Exhibit at the Kimball

[Jocelyn Hinkle]

Wheeee!!!!!!!! Sounds like a perfect excuse for a pilgrimage.

Ari, 
...I wonder if they are bringing their heart shaped book...

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Is there enough of God left, in the dust 
between the stars, to dance up more 
life than your fragile ego can stand?
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--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:14:59
From: "M TURNAGE" <ceinwen7777777 at hotmail.com>
To: scriptoris at ansteorra.org
Cc: 

>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~
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>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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