Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Description

The Getty Museum's collection of illuminated manuscripts, featured in this book, comprises masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance art. Dating from the tenth to the sixteenth century, they were produced in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, England, Spain, Poland, and the eastern Mediterranean. Among the highlights are four Ottonian manuscripts, Romanesque treasures from Germany, Italy, and France, and English Gothic Apocalypse, and late medieval manuscripts painted by such masters as Jean Fouquet, Girolamo da Cremona, Simon Marmion, and Joris Hoefnagel. Included are liturgical books, devotional books for private use, books of the Bible, histories by Giovanni Boccaccio and Jean Froissart, and a Model Book of Calligraphy.

Description

From third-millennium-B.C. marble statuettes to gem-encrusted gold jewelry of the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., the collection of antiquities in the J. Paul Getty Museum testifies to the extraordinary skill and artistic achievements of sculptors, potters, painters, metalsmiths, and other artisans of the ancient Mediterranean world. Indicating both the quality of the individual pieces and the range of the collection, this volume illustrates many of the outstanding objects, among them a rare life-size Greek bronze statue depicting a victorious youth and J. Paul Getty's personal favorite, the marble statue known as the Lansdowne Herakles. Also included are a number of Greek and Etruscan terracotta vases, bronze and marble sculpture, and delicate late Classical and Ptolemaic gold jewelry.

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Other Editions

• Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum.J. Paul Getty Museum1997-01-01
• Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum.Thames & Hudson1993-01-01
• Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum.The Museum1997-01-01
• Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum.The Museum1997-01-01
• Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum.The Museum1997-01-01
• Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty MuseumPaperbackThames and Hudson Ltd1997-09-15