Ebook: The Spitz master : a Parisian book of hours
Author: Spitz Master, Clark Gregory T.
- Genre: Art // Graphic Arts
- Tags: Spitz hours -- Illustrations, Spitz Master -- active 1415-1425, Illumination of books and manuscripts French -- France -- Paris, Illumination of books and manuscripts Gothic -- France -- Paris, Illumination of books and manuscripts -- California -- Los Angeles, J Paul Getty Museum, Spitz hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Illumination of books and manuscripts French, Illumination of books and manuscripts Gothic, California -- Los Angeles, France -- Paris, Getijdenboeken, Spitz Hours
- Series: Getty Museum studies on art.
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
- City: Los Angeles, California
- Language: English
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"The Spitz Hours is one of the Getty Museum's finest French books of hours. It is also one of the most original and inventive manuscripts in the International style. In new art-historical research Gregory Clark places this book's vivid, even witty imagery in the turbulent context of Parisian culture around 1420. The Spitz Master, its primary illuminator, allows the narrative of the miniatures to spill into the Read more...