French Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum introduces the public to the richness of the J. Paul Getty Museum's holdings in French manuscripts from the ninth to the eighteenth century. This volume includes full-color reproductions of masterpieces from such works as a bible from ... Lees verder

170 full-color Gallic glories — borders, florals, panels, pilasters, cornices, and more architectural and ornamental images — in an incredible variety of styles: Byzantine, Roman, Gothic, and Renaissance. Reprint of Le Style Dans La Peinture Décorative, Dujardin & Cie, Editeurs Lees verder

The Getty Museum inaugurates a new series of affordable publications that introduce the public to the richness of its holdings in illuminated manuscripts. The first in the series features Italian manuscript illumination from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries. This volume showcases full-color re... Lees verder

Medieval manuscripts are among Western civilization’s greatest glories. Laboriously written by hand and often sumptuously decorated, they have always been highly valued and remain as brilliant, fascinating and popular as ever. Christopher de Hamel vividly describes the circumstances in which such bo... Lees verder

A wonderful sourcebook of Victorian border designs. The colors are vibrant and scan well, although there is some ghosting from images on the reverse of the page. Many of the designs can be made fully tileable with a little pixel pushing. Lees verder

A study of the Spitz book of hours, one of the finest French manuscripts in the collections of the Getty Museum, painted in the International style. Gregory Clark places the manuscript in the turbulent context of Parisian culture around 1420. All the book's miniatures are reproduced in colour. Lees verder