The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting. by DEFOUR, H.L.; A.S. KORTEWEG & X.C.M. WÃœSTEFELD

Book. Good. Binding see description. Exh. cat. Utrecht/New York, 1990. Introd. by James H. Marrow. 318pp. Richly illus. in b/w & colour. * The golden age extended from the late fourteenth century to the early sixteenth century and included illumination of Books of Hours, grand Latin Bibles and their vernacular miniatures, and specialized devotional treatises such as rosary prayer books. According to Marrow the work is of the highest artistic order, characterized by "detailed story telling, pictorial naturalism and decorative embellisment." With an Appendix featuring a Map of the Northern Netherlands during the Fifteenth Century, A List of Plates,A Bibliiography and Index. Very 0.