Books of Hours Reimagined: A Book of Hours by Francesco di Antonio del Chierico скачать в хорошем качестве

Books of Hours Reimagined: A Book of Hours by Francesco di Antonio del Chierico

For medieval folk, seeing really functioned as a kind of believing. For those who believed in “extramission” (lauded by Plato) the eye sends out its own rays, traveling through air, then hits an object to carry the same information back to the mind. For those who believed in “intromission” (lauded by Aristotle), the sight-rays extend from the objects into our eyes. In either case, viewers would have been especially sensitive to the sightlines in medieval illuminations. When the Virgin Mary and the Archangel Gabriel gaze directly at each other in the silence of Mary’s bedroom without speaking, Mary absorbs the essence of Gabriel and his message held on a banderole becomes part of her own consciousness. In turn, the viewer staring at the locked gazes in the picture opens his or her lips in prayer, the first words on the page at the beginning of all Hours of the Virgin. This richly illuminated Book of Hours has an unprecedented and strikingly beautiful series of illuminations in which miniscule figures are executed with painstaking detail, often in large empty landscapes or crowded street scenes and surrounded by lush gold decoration. Exhibition Catalogue: https://website-lesenluminures.artlog... Book of hours: https://www.lesenluminures.com/artwor...