On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 09:09:18 -0500 Stan Metheny
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> One may also find of interest Michael Camille's _Master of Death : The
> Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet, Illuminator_ (1996; Yale Univ Pr; ISBN:
> 0300064578)
> Some comments extracted from reviews:
> Camille spent over 12 years in Europe and the U. S. tracking down medieval
> manuscripts that contain the work of one little-known manuscript illuminator
> Pierre Remiet. At once a biography of Remiet, an art history, and a review
> of daily life in medieval times. Imaginative, innovative, and illustrated
> with some of the most striking images of the Middle Ages, this book is a
> "history of death in miniature" as told in hundreds of tiny pictures
> produced by this fourteenth-century manuscript illuminator whose specialty
> was the representation of death, old age, and decay. Camille explores the
> artist`s work, shedding light on medieval perceptions of death, its
> fascination with the macabre, and the relationship between mortality and the
> hereafter.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carlos Sastre" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 10:32 AM
> Subject: RE: images of death
>
>
> > BERLIOZ, J., "Crapauds et cadavres dans la litterature exemplaire
> (XIIe-XIVe
> > siècles)", Micrologus, VII (1999), pp. 231-46
> >
> > BOASE, T.S.R., Death in the Middle Ages. Mortality, Judgment and
> > Remembrance, London, Thames and Hudson, 1972
> >
> > JORDAN, L.E., The Iconography of Death in Western Medieval Art to 1350
> (Ph.
> > Diss.) University of Notre Dame, 1980.
> >
> > TENENTI, A., La vie et la mort a travers l'art du XVe siecle,
> > Condé-sur-Noireau, Serge Fleury, 1983
> >
> >
> > Carlos
>
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