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.
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From: "Carlos Sastre" <[log in to unmask]>
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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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