The Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux

The Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux
Author: Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages:
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300087802

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This beautiful prayer book's profuse decoration and refined drawing - the work of the celebrated artist Jean Pucelle - comes alive through the medium of CD-ROM.

The Art of Illumination

The Art of Illumination
Author: Timothy Husband
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2008
Genre: Belles heures of Jean of France, Duke of Berry
ISBN: 1588392945

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Pen and Parchment

Pen and Parchment
Author: Melanie Holcomb
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2009
Genre: Drawing, Medieval
ISBN: 1588393186

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Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.

The Spitz Master

The Spitz Master
Author: Gregory Clark
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892367121

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Clark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color.

Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art

Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art
Author: Alexa Sand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2014-03-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107032229

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Focuses on one of the most attractive features of late medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her prayer-book.