One hundred manuscripts have been chosen for this survey to represent the artistic excellence of French book production of the period, as well as to demonstrate the stylistic relationships between artists and between books that may be seen to form distinct groups. While continuing the tradition of French figurative art, ornamentation became a major element in the style of the period, with frames and borders becoming a significant feature of the aesthetic impact of the illuminated page. Although illustrated printed books were circulating freely by the beginning of the sixteenth century, patronage of manuscripts became all the more special to the ruling elite, and commissions from the court, aristocratic circles and the higher clergy resulted in a surge of artistic creativity that produced a wide range of outstanding illustrated works from devotional books to translations of classical and humanistic texts. This publication is the first comprehensive survey to establish the importance of Renaissance manuscript illumination in the history of sixteenth-century French art. “Orth’s work will be a vital resource not only for manuscript and book history studies, but also to literary, artistic, and historical scholars of the sixteenth century.” (Susan Broomhall, in Parergon, 35/2, 2018, p. "Thanks to the research of Myra Orth, these ravishing Renaissance treasures are now accessible to a new generation of connoisseurs." (Mark Evans, in: The Art Newspaper, Number 294, October 2017, p. “Focused on the period 1515–70, this beautiful two-volume set is the latest installment in a distinguished series, "Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France (…) This is a required resource for anyone studying or interested in French Renaissance art." (L. As the culmination of Myra Orth’s body of perceptive, incisive, and thorough work on sixteenth-century French manuscript illumination, this study is an invaluable addition to our understanding of the early modern book and its vital cultural context.” (Larissa Grollemond, in Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2016.09) These volumes address an extremely understudied topic, and will promote a wide variety of new explorations, particularly including artistic milieux outside the royal circle and Paris. “Any scholar of French visual culture in the sixteenth century will reference this study with great frequency.
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