Codices Illustres

Name: Codices Illustres
Brand: TASCHEN
Price: 79.75 AUD

The World's Most Famous Illuminated Manuscripts 400 to 1600

By: Norbert Wolf, Ingo F. Walther

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Hardcover | 26 March 2018

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504 Pages

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24.0 x 17.2 x 4.5

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These paradigms of miniature painting from the fourth century to 1600 are worth many millions and typically tucked away in private collections or closely guarded archives—until now. Discover some of the most beautiful and important manuscripts from the Middle Ages in this collection of brilliant large-format reproductions, complete with a 36-page appendix detailing artist biographies, an index, and a glossary.

About the Author

Norbert Wolf graduated in art history, linguistics, and medieval studies at the Universities of Regensburg and Munich, and earned his PhD in 1983. He held visiting professorships in Marburg, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Nuremberg-Erlangen, and Innsbruck. His extensive writings on art history include many TASCHEN titles, such as Diego Velázquez, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Caspar David Friedrich, Expressionism, Romanesque, Landscape Painting, and Symbolism.

The editor Ingo F. Walther (1940–2007) was born in Berlin and studied medieval studies, literature, and art history in Frankfurt am Main and Munich. He published numerous books on the art of the Middle Ages and of the 19th and 20th centuries. Walther’s many titles for TASCHEN include Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Art of the 20th Century, and Codices illustres.

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"The one book you want if you are interested in illuminated manuscripts-and once you open it, you will be." * The Wall Street Journal *

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