Burgundian book art from the Valois to the Habsburgs
(Eberhard König, Nina Zenker)
Internet learning program, sponsored by BMB+F as part of the "School of Seeing" project
The subject of this program is the golden age of Burgundian illumination, and so primarily with Flemish manuscripts of 1420 to 1520 from the surroundings of the Burgundian Dukes of the Valois and Habsburg dynasties. Even more than the paintings of the early Dutch masters, they provide an insight into courtly culture. While strongly influenced by French and Italian painting, their impact was nonetheless felt by other artistic landscapes as far away as England, and the Burgundian Netherlands were a center of arts in their own right. The program demonstrates the funtion and importance of books in the later medieval era, as well as the requirements and motivation of bibliophile clients, the processes of production and the artistic variety of the book medium. The course also provides a general introduction to techniques of manuscript description and analysis.
Besides providing an introduction to a culture which was of extraordinary significance for late medieval and early modern book production, the course aims to provide tools for the compilation and recording of manuscripts, and an analytical approach to iluminated books, initially irrespective of their provenance. Course members will become familiar with historical collectors and their libraries, and aquire an understanding of the technical processes involved in book production. The most important liturgical and paraliturgical text genres and also those from secular areas such as historiography, literature and didactics are explained through significant examples with their particular types of illustration. And of course the program also offers an overview of the leading book illustrators of the era.
Students and teachers of the project's Partner universities
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Phillipps-Universität Marburg
- Universität Hamburg
- Technische Universität Dresden
and also Students and teachers of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurtcan now access and use the E-learning program "History of Art in its Changing Functions - Art and Function"
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