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The Art of the Renaissance Book

Tributes in Honor of Lilian Armstrong

Ilaria Andreoli, Helena Szepe (eds)

Pages: 480 p.
Size:220 x 280 mm
Illustrations:15 b/w, 142 col.

Language(s):English, Italian, French
Publication Year:2023

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ISBN: 978-2-503-58463-8
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This volume presents new research by eminent and emerging scholars in honor of Lilian Armstrong, whose pioneering art historical approach to the study of early printed books focused upon the unique nature of each copy of an edition to reveal a vast, previously unstudied corpus of beautiful and important paintings within them.

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Helena Szépe and Ilaria Andreoli have published extensively on manuscript illumination and early printed book illustration.

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This book presents new research by eminent and emerging scholars in honor of Lilian Armstrong, whose extraordinary research has elucidated a vast corpus of imagery previously hidden inside manuscripts and books produced in late medieval and Renaissance Venice and the Veneto. Armstrong was one of the pioneers focusing upon the unique nature of each copy of early printed editions, an approach which has transformed the field of book history. Her studies of antiquarian imagery in books and manuscripts revealed the inventiveness and originality of these works, and that many important classical motifs initially emerged in such marginal spaces before they were canonized in sculpture and oil painting. The contributions by art historians, manuscript scholars, and book historians collected here on the book arts across Europe are testimonies to the fact that Lilian Armstrong's research has been highly influential across disciplines and geographical areas of study.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

The Art of the Renaissance Book: Honoring Lilian Armstrong

Helena Katalin Szépe and Ilaria Andreoli

PART I: EARLY PRINTED BOOKS AND THEIR DECORATION

I, libelle: Rodericus Zamorensis Launches his Book

Martin Davies

The Graphic Style of the First Books Printed in Venice

Renzo Baldasso

Italian Book Design as Paradigm and Challenge for German Artists, Intellectuals, and Printers (among others Ulrich Schreier, Hartmann Schedel, and Günther Zainer)

Christine Beier

Nicolas Jenson and Jacobus Rubeus in Cologne and Zutphen

Lotte Hellinga

Une énigmatique illustration dans un incunable vénitien

François Avril

Il Calepino 1533: una doppia emissione, un frontespizio "metalibrario," e una nuova edizione delle Tre Parche

Edoardo Barbieri

PART II: MANUSCRIPT PAINTING IN ITALY

An Illustrated "Esopo" of the Veneto in the British Library

Matilde Malaspina

Una nuova tessera per l’attività di Cristoforo Majorana e la biblioteca di Andrea Matteo III Acquaviva

Teresa d’Urso

Per Alessandro Leoni, Antonio Maria da Villafora, e il Maestro delle Sette Virtù

Giordana Mariani Canova

Due codici miniati da Antonio Maria da Villafora: un commentario al primo libro delle Sentenze di Egidio Romano della Biblioteca Angelica e un messale del Musée Jacquemart-André

Federica Toniolo and Gennaro Toscano

Benedetto Bordon, the Barozzi Breviary Master, and the Venetian Procurators of Saint Mark

Helena Katalin Szépe

Il miniatore Giorgio Colonna e la raffigurazione dell’Arsenale veneziano

Susy Marcon

PART III: COLLECTING AND THE HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP ON EARLY BOOKS

Venetian Miniatures in Munich Incunabula: New Additions

Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt

An Ex-Celotti Antiphonal Cutting Inscribed "BF" in the North Carolina Museum of Art

Lyle Humphrey

Re-uniting Cuttings by Antonio Maria da Villafora Collected by James Dennistoun in Padua in 1839 with their Parent Manuscript

Jonathan J.G. Alexander

Les Missels imprimés à Venise (1896): storia di un incunabolo moderno

Ilaria Andreoli