Antipodean Early Modern : : European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200-1600 / / ed. by Anne Dunlop.

A Rothschild prayer book; an Italian bronze casket by Antico; a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century Germany; an altarpiece by the famous Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger—much of the artwork in this book, held by Australian collections, is essentially unknown bey...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Legacies of early European art in Australian collections
  • 2. Heaven and earth: the worlds of the Rothschild Prayer Book
  • 3. The Rothschild Prayer Book as political, social and economic agent through the ages
  • 4. ‘Women who read are dangerous’: illuminated manuscripts and female book collections in the early Renaissance
  • 5. Medieval parchment: two glossed Bible books in context
  • 6. Beginnings and endings: the shaping of the Book of Hours
  • 7. An associate of the Jouvenel Master and the Breviary of Prior François Robert
  • 8. Chrysalis to butterfly: an aspect of the evolution of the Book of Hours from manuscript to print
  • 9. The Sorbonne Press and the chancellor’s manuscript
  • 10. Thielman Kerver’s Book of Hours of 10 September 1522 in the Kerry Stokes Collection
  • 11. An accessory of intellect: a Renaissance writing casket from the Kerry Stokes Collection
  • 12. ‘A Very Rich Adornment’: a discussion of the Stokes Cassone
  • 13. The Dormition of the Virgin altarpiece from the Kerry Stokes Collection
  • 14. Through the son: Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s Crucifixion
  • 15. The Kerry Stokes Schembart book: festivity, fashion and family in the late medieval Nuremberg Carnival
  • Index