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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2021

        Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 97/2

        by Stephen Mossman, Cordelia Warr

        The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections. The editors invite the submission of articles in these fields and welcome discussion of in-progress projects.

      • The Arts
        February 2022

        Beato Angelico

        by Liana Castelfranchi

        While tracing Angelico's entire oeuvre from Fiesole to Florence and Rome, this work by Castelfranchi expresses a very strong thesis and makes the artist the vanguard of Humanism. A Dominican imbued with Thomism who absorbed the new cultural and aesthetic instances, in particular the lesson of Alberti, implements a painting that, by treating religious subjects, places before us the depiction of the new man inserted in a context in which the rules of perspective and the lesson of light (also Flemish) are fully realised. The miracle of the totally frescoed St. Mark's Convent confirms for us an Angelico capable of enormous work and shows him to be an extraordinary workshop leader. His Roman patrons, popes Eugene IV and Nicholas I, had long been promoters of humanist culture on the Florentine scene and in Rome they wanted the Angelico that they had already appreciated so much in Florence in the mid-1530s and 1540s. It was precisely in the capital, Castelfranchi explains, that Fra Angelico would achieve a very pure 'classicism' in painting.

      • The Arts

        Isabella Breviary

        by Scot McKendrick(British Library), Elisa Ruiz García (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Nigel Morgan (Cambridge University)

        One of the greatest treasures that British Library owns, among its vast collection of manuscripts, is The Isabella Breviary, a late 15th century codex that has the most beautiful illuminations from Flemish artists of that period in time. On our art book, we offer you full-colour images of all the paintings from the original manuscript.   Among the many miniatures of the Breviary, made by six different artists, stand out the illuminations created by the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, its main artist, as well as those made by the Master of James IV of Scotland, who added Renaissance elements to the work. Nigel Morgan, Emeritus Honorary Professor of the History of Art at Cambridge University, describes one by one all these images.   This art book is a unique, original and accurate masterpiece. Furthermore, on its 352 pages, you will find full information on the historical context of an amazing manuscript that Queen Isabella received back in 1497 from her ambassador, Francisco de Rojas, as a gift to commemorate both her children’s wedding. This art book reviews all the international alliances of this time in history, marked by the territorial expansions that followed the discovery of America.   CONTENTS: - From the editor to the reader Manuel Moleiro - Introduction Scot McKendrick (Head of History and Classics at the British Library) - The historical context and provenance Elisa Ruiz García (Professor of Diplomacy and Paleography, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Scot McKendrick - Contents and authorship Nigel Morgan (Emeritus Honorary Professor of the History of Art, Cambridge University) Scot McKendrick - The illustration and decoration Nigel Morgan - Appendix - Bibliography   VIDEO (5 min.): English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T40mG1yvAjM Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEYcdKAR2ys French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khgtIjxfkPI   MORE INFORMATION: https://www.moleiro.com/en/art-books/the-isabella-breviary-1.html

      • Art forms
        October 2020

        Chinese Ancient Buddhism Statues Art

        by Yang Xin

        It was research picture book about Chinese ancient Buddhism statues art from the Buddhism into China, to tidy particularly the characteristic and evolution of the statue style. The book sorted out and analyzed the statue’s details such as hair accessory, posture, garment, feature and so on, and discussed the statue art influence by Chinese dynasties’ aesthetic development, time style, and the fusion with foreign culture. The high definition picture materials were not only from Chinese infrequent Buddhism grottoes and statues, but also from Chinese ancient Buddhism statues drifting oversea. The work mainly focused from Chinese Jin Dynasty to Tong Dynasty.

      • History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400
        May 2011

        The Last American Puritan

        The Life of Increase Mather, 1639–1723

        by Michael G. Hall

        A critically acclaimed and accessible biography of one of the towering figures of New England's colonial period; winner of The Conference on Christianity and Literature's Book Award.

      • The Arts
        May 2019

        Painted on the wall: the wall as a visual support in the Middle Ages

        by Santiago Manzarbeitia Valle, Matilde Azcárate Luxán, Irene González Hernando (editors)

        This book is dedicated to the phenomenon of medieval mural art from current research and analysis carried out by specialists from Spanish, European and North American universities, museums and cultural institutions. Structured in six chapters (interdisciplinary study, territory, materiality, meaning, related techniques, musealization and heritage protection), the aim of this monograph is to integrate the wide diversity of medieval mural painting as an art of time and space, through Spanish, French, Italian and English mural ensembles from the Middle Ages.

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