This book presents one of the finest private collections of Italian manuscripts ever assembled after the First World War. Comparable only to the legendary Cini Collection in Venice, it was formed by Robert Lehman to complement his fathers holdings of early Italian panel paintings. Included are works by the major schools of illumination in southern Italy, Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia, Lombardy, and the Veneto. Also represented are works by three of the principal artists in the history of Italian painting: Duccio di Buoninsegna, Stefano da Verona, and Cosimo Tura.

Treasures of a Lost Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Arts & Photography

Palladino, Pia

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

This beautiful book, published in conjunction with the first major exhibition of Fra Angelicos work since the cinquecentenary exhibition of 1955 in Florence, will feature more than seventy paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations covering all periods of the artists career, from round 1410 to 1455. Also included will be fifty selected works by his assistants and closest followers.Fra Angelico (the angelic friar; ca. 1390/95-1455) was one of Renaissance Florences leading painters. In addition to his celebrated altarpieces and frescos in Florence, Fiesole, Cortona, Perugia, and Rome, Fra Angelico also completed many masterpieces on a small scale. His predella panels, the small narrative scenes included beneath large altarpieces, are among the most innovative creations in fifteenthcentury Florence, while his images of the Virgin and Child still retain the inspirational immediacy and presence that first secured the artists reputation

Fra Angelico (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Kanter, Laurence

Individual Artists

Metropolitan Museum of Art

This book presents the exceptional group of illuminations in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in this collection represent the major schools of illumination that flourished in Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Robert Lehman (1892-1969), one of the great private art collectors of the twentieth century, collected these illuminations as an extension of his remarkable collection of early European paintings and drawings.
 Among the works catalogued here are a miniature by Simon Marmion--the "prince d'enluminure"--painted for a Breviary for Charles the Bold and Margaret of York, and, among the Italian illuminations, a Last Judgment in an Initial C by the great Florentine painter Lorenzo Monaco and an Adoration of the Magi by Francesco Marmitta. A Self-Portrait by Simon Bening and a Virgin and Child by Francesco Morone are early examples of small paintings on parchment conceived as independent works of art rather than as illustrations for manuscripts. Also here are a leaf painted for the Hours of ftienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet, the most celebrated French painter of the fifteenth century, and a miniature Holy Face by Gerard David that was possibly created as an independent devotional image. All the illuminations in the Robert Lehman Collection are reproduced in color, and copious comparative illustrations supplement the extensive catalogue entries. This is the seventh in a projected series of sixteen volumes that will catalogue the entire Robert Lehman Collection.

The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

HINDMAN, Sandra

D'Ancona, Mirella Levi

Saffiotti, Maria Francesca

Princeton University Press

This catalog was published to accompany an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, and Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco in 2003 and 2004. Palladino, a curator of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Met, of which these manuscript fragments form a part, provides a brief introduction. The remainder of the volume presents the 87 works from the exhibition in color plates with a full catalog entry. Distributed by Yale U. Press using the Yale ISBN: 0-300-09879-0. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

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