The review deals with Richard H. Rouse, Mary A. Rouse, Renaissance Illuminators in Paris: Artists & Artisans 1500-1715. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2019; 280 pp., 65 colour illus., ISBN: 978-1-912554-28-7. It stresses that the book provides a vivid and complex picture of a ‘community of Parisian illuminators that survived the advent of the printing press for a great deal longer than anyone had a right to expect’ (p. 153). The analysis also points out to the book under review is a valuable resource for socio-economic historians of late Renaissance and Baroque Paris, for art historians working on illumination and illuminators, and for scholars of book history and culture.
Richard H. Rouse, Mary A. Rouse, Renaissance Illuminators in Paris: Artists & Artisans 1500-1715. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2019; 280 pp., 65 colour illus., ISBN: 978-1-912554-28-7.
Smurra, Rosa
2020
Abstract
The review deals with Richard H. Rouse, Mary A. Rouse, Renaissance Illuminators in Paris: Artists & Artisans 1500-1715. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2019; 280 pp., 65 colour illus., ISBN: 978-1-912554-28-7. It stresses that the book provides a vivid and complex picture of a ‘community of Parisian illuminators that survived the advent of the printing press for a great deal longer than anyone had a right to expect’ (p. 153). The analysis also points out to the book under review is a valuable resource for socio-economic historians of late Renaissance and Baroque Paris, for art historians working on illumination and illuminators, and for scholars of book history and culture.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
