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43299

SMEYERS, Maurits

"Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th century; The medieval world on parchment."
Leuven
Davidsfonds
1999
€60,00

31,5 x 24,5 cm, 528 pages, ill. in colour. Blue publisher's cloth, dust jacket and cloth slipcase

A beautiful overview of the development in style of the miniature. From the anonymous and modest early Romanesque illustrations to the luxurious late Gothic miniatures of Simon Marmion or Lucas Horenbout who, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, exported their Flemish masterpieces as far afield as Spain and Russia. Never before has the reader-viewer been presented with such a complete overview of the art of Flemish miniatures from the eighth to the sixteenth centuries. Never before has a book presented such a fascinating history of eight centuries of the art of miniatures from the Low Countries. Never before have so many miniatures - more then 600 colour illustrations - been reproduced in one book