THE ROHAN MASTER Fantastic Book of Illuminatiion NICE w SlipcaseFirst Edition

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THE ROHAN MASTER Fantastic Book of Illuminatiion NICE w SlipcaseFirst Edition:
$49.99

Gorgeous & Rare!

First Edition

The Rohan Master

A Book of Hours

Here isarare and beautifulhardcover bookthatwould beafantastic addition to a collection!

You are offerding on a very rare, large sizehardcover book titledThe Rohan Master - A Book of Hours. Published by George Braziller, 1973. This is the First Edition. Comes with the original slipcase. Book is loaded with magnificent copies of illuminated manuscripts!

This powerful and breathtakingly beautiful Book of Hours was designed in the fifteenth century by one of the greatest masters of expressionism in France at the time, and executed by him (together with members of his workshop) for a royal patron. A relatively unknown masterpiece, it emerged from artistic obscurity in 1904 to widespread acclaim and critical appreciation. As Millard Meiss points out in his Introduction: \"The Rohan Master cared less about what people do than what they feel. . . .Whereas his great predecessors, the Boucicaut Master and the Limbourgs, excelled in the description of novel aspects of the natural world, he explored the realm of human feeling\". And, in his explorations, the Rohan Master disclosed a way of viewing and visually depicting reality (replete with familiar biblical figures, saints, angels, devils) and the emotions of simple men and women - suffering, elation, fear, melancholy, and hope - in a manner that is both original and powerfully moving. From the first folio of this remarkable and often startling manuscript to the final plate, the entire range of human emotions is compassionately but uncompromisingly explored. Named after the Rohan family, whose arms appear in this manuscript, this distinctive artist earned himself a place as one of the greatest manuscript illuminators of the early Renaissance.

This wonderful hardback book is bound in crimson cloth binding, featuring heavy stock plates. Like all the painting of its period the Grandes Heures de Rohan began to attract attention ouside a very small circle of historians and bibliophiles when in 1904 it was included in the first exhibition ever held of French \"primitives\" - that is, paintings on panel and in books of the 14th and 15th centuries. The Grandes Heures de Rohan has become one of the most famous of all illuminated manuscripts. Fascinating essay on the illuminations, followed by 127 full color plates with gold detail, each plate has description, list of related manuscripts and iconographic documents cited, selected bibliography.

Book features gorgeousbright red clothbinding. Cover has gold design and spine has gold lettering and gold design. All pages are very clean and tightly bound.There is no writing in book at all and no signs of previous ownership.Book is in near-fine condition. The original slipcase is in very good condition but it has some spotting on the front label of slipcase.

Thisbook would be asuperb addition to a collection!

This amazing book is selling for $375 - $970 elsewhere!

Great gift idea!

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