Re-inventing Traditions ― On the Transmission of Artistic Patterns in Late Medieval Manuscript Illumination

Art historians and medievalists present new studies on the transmission of artistic patterns in late medieval manuscript illumination both north and south of the Alps, a means of artistic production that played an essential role throughout the Middle Ages. They cover the transmission of pictorial cycles and isolated patterns; aspects of artistic exchange between layout, decoration, and illumination; workshops and their models--on the local and transregional transformation of artistic patterns; artistic itineraries and the rapport between illumination and monumental painting; and the re-use of artistic patterns in books of hours. The 16 papers--eight in French--are from a June 2012 conference in Berlin. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Joris Corin Heyder holds a scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation and works on his PhD at the Freie Universitat Berlin.
Christine Seidel got her PhD at the Freie Universitat Berlin and was Silvia Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow at the Alan B. Slifka Foundation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.