ILLUSTRATED
MATERIAL
a.
Medieval
Drama Manuscripts
A multimedia project on the
York Mystery Plays,
produced by Meg Twycross and Pamela King of Lancaster University,
funded by
the British Academy in
association with the British Library. As it is full of
graphics including illustrations from manuscripts, it loads rather
slowly.
DScriptorium
Jess D. Hurlbut of Brigham
Young University presents a
collection of digital images from important medieval manuscripts,
including the
fourteenth-century French play
'Mystere
dou jour dou judgement'
(Bibliothèque Municipale de Besançon)
and
'Life,
Death and Miracles of St. Jerome' (French
manuscript c. 1495-1515 in the Brigham Young
University Special Collections).
b.
Other
Medieval Manuscripts
An impressive collection of
mainly medieval
illustrations.
A superb collection (from the
8th to the 15th century)
from many European countries - presented by Columbia University
Libraries.
Illustrations from this famous
Book of Hours from the Musée Condé, Chantilly
.
A user-friendly selection
presented by Claude Coibion et Carmélia Opsomer.
From the outstanding series
'Creating French Culture'
(Library of Congress), this is a most useful collection of medieval
illustrated
manuscripts with informative notes.
A
magnificent collection of
illustrated manuscripts
from an exhibition of the Library of Congress,
with very useful, detailed information. Highly recommended.
(Another part of the superb series 'Creating French Culture'.)
c.
Medieval
Paintings and Sculpture
An astonishing collection of
images from the Vatican, including,
for example, 325 of
the Sistine Chapel and 596 of the Vatican Museum!
A fascinating
illustrated introduction to, and explanatory catalogue of all the
figurative sculpture that is part of the original interior fabric of
the medieval building. Most of the illustrations are black-and-white.
Enlargeable
thumbnail photos, from the Web Gallery of Art, of four of
these
important frescoes, depicting incidents in the life of Saint Francis,
that were
painted by Giotto between 1279 and 1300.
A WebMuseum, Paris, site,
prepared by Nicolas Pioch
with a simple introduction, short biographies of painters and many
interesting
illustrations.
An interesting collection of
illustrations (with text
in French).
Large and useful selection,
from Malaspina Art Data
Base, arranged by artists that include
Jean
Fouquet,
Gentile
da Fabriano,
Pietro
Lorenzetti
and
Hildegard
von Bingen.
An excellent selection of 130
enlargeable thumbnail
illustrations of many types of sculpture, often showing specific
details. (Brief
text in Italian and English.)
Articles in French about the
astonishing medieval art
treasures in Limoges, with cross-reference to a large number of
splendid
illuminations on this site presented by the French Ministère de la
Culture.
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