Beasts: Factual & Fantastic - Couverture rigide

Morrison, Elizabeth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0892368888 ISBN 13 : 9780892368884

Editeur : Getty Publications, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Morrison Elizabeth

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Manuscripts of the middle ages teem with pictures of animals, ranging from fierce hunting hawks tied to their owners' wrists, to proud lions added to the coasts of arms of noblemen, to terrify monsters of the Apocalypse. The images in this volume provide a window onto a time when animals both factual and fantastic played a leading role in the medieval imagination. "Beasts Factual and Fantastic" is the first in the "Medieval Imagination" series of small, affordable books that will draw on manuscript illuminations from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Each volume will focus on a particular theme or subject as represented by medieval artists. Often, as in the case of the imaginary beasts that readers will encounter in this volume, artists depicted that which they did not see or know, but which was nonetheless shaped by the prevailing beliefs, fears, and rudimentary science of the time. In other cases, manuscript illuminators recorded what they indeed did see - which, centuries later, reveals much about the world in which they lived.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Elizabeth Morrison is Associate Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Getty Publications
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0892368888
• ISBN 13: 9780892368884
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112