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Book Review
White: The History of a Color Les couleurs au Moyen Âge: Dictionnaire encyclopédique
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 211–212
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Reviewer:
Jasperse, Jitske (Jasperse, Jitske)
Subjects
subjects:
Colour / White / Social history / Medieval art / Pigments / Bestiaries / Heraldry
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Les couleurs au Moyen Âge: Dictionnaire encyclopédique By Michel Pastoureau. 360 pp. incl. 32 col. ills. (Éditions Le Léopard d’Or, Paris, 2022), €60. ISBN 978–2–86377–283–6. | :
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White: The History of a Color By Michel Pastoureau, translated by Jody Gladding. 240 pp. incl. 130 col. ills. (Princeton University Press, 2023), £35.00. ISBN 978–0–69124–349–8. | :
Exhibition Review
Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 666-669
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Reviewer:
Diebold, William (Diebold, William)
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dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
subjects:
Medieval art / Bestiaries / Illuminated manuscripts / Animals / Christian iconography / Secular / Contemporary art / Artists' books
subjects:
Allegory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Opposite 2. Lion from the Rothschild Pentateuch. 1296. Parchment, 28 by 21 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, MS 116, f.32v).
Western art unattributed:
3. Lions from a bestiary. c.1250. Parchment, 29 by 20 cm. (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley764, f.2v; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
Below 1. Pelican feeding her young. c.1500. Tapestry, 65 by 233 cm. (Kloster Lüne, Lüne; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Book Review
A Medieval Book of Beasts. The second-family Bestiary. Commentary. Art. Text and Translation
10/2008 | 1267 | 50
Pages: 689-690
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Reviewer:
Kauffmann, C. M. (Kauffmann, C. M.; K., C. M.)
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dates:
1180-1189 / 1200-1249 / 1190-1199
print:
Illuminated manuscripts
subjects:
Illustrated books / Animal Paintings / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Bestiaries / Medieval / Animals
subjects:
Commentaries / Translations
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Medieval Book of Beasts. The second-family Bestiary. Commentary. Art. Text and Translation | author: Clark, Willene B.
Book Review
Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Ideology
08/1996 | 1121 | 138
Pages: 548
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Reviewer:
Baxter, Ron (Baxter, Ron)
Subjects
subjects:
Bestiaries
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Ideology | author: Hassig, Debra
Article
The Choir Capitals of S. Pierre-en-Haute, Chauvigny (Poitou)
01/1920 | 202 | 36
Pages: 11-13+16-18
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Author:
McDougall, Dorothy (McDougall, Dorothy)
Subjects
buildings:
Eglise Saint-Pierre, Chauvigny, France
dates:
1100-1199
places:
Chauvigny / Poitou-Charentes / France
subjects:
Sculpture / Medieval / French / Romanesque
subjects:
Capitals (column components) / Iconography / Bestiaries / Christian iconography
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 1.-Detail from the 5th Capital.
Western art unattributed:
Plate I. A Exterior, East End (Looking West). S. Pierre-en-Haute, Chauvigny
Western art unattributed:
Plate I. B Interior, East End (Looking East). S. Pierre-en-Haute, Chauvigny
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. The Choir Capitals. S. Pierre-en-Haute, Chauvigny