Die Mainzer Karmeliter-Chorbücher - Studien zur mittelrheinischen Buchmalerei des 15. Jahrhunderts

In der vorliegenden Arbeit sind erstmals die Karmeliterchorbücher des Mainzer Dommuseums - ein fünfbändiges Antiphonar und ein Graduale - kodikologisch und kunsthistorisch untersucht worden. Dabei stellte sich heraus, dass diese bislang in der Literatur nur bruchstückhaft bekannten Handschriften zwei eigenständige Werke sind, deren Bildinitialen nicht - wie bislang angenommen - von dem in einer Widmung genannten Frater Nycolaus angefertigt worden sind. Dieser konnte lediglich als Schreiber von drei Bänden des Antiphonars identifiziert werden. Die neun Bildinitialen des handwerklich solide angefertigten Graduales folgen altbekannten böhmischen Vorbildern und bestechen durch ihre Erzählfreude und Detailgenauigkeit. Kunsthistorisch bedeutsamer sind die fünf erhaltenen Bildinitialen des Antiphonars, das wahrscheinlich von dem Mainzer Juristen und Geschichtsforscher Franz Joseph Bodmann im 19. Jahrhundert um mindestens zehn weitere Bildinitialen beraubt wurde. Die Qualität der verbliebenen Bildinitialen, die teilweise weit entwickelte Landschaften, eine hochmoderne Verkündigungsszene und Mustergrundinitialen zeigen, die in enger Verbindung zum Göttinger Musterbuch stehen, sichern dem Antiphonar einen bedeutenden Rang in der Mittelrheinischen Kunst. Beide Liturgika überraschen durch die qualitative und quantitative Ausstattungsfülle beim einzeiligen Initialschmuck. Zwei in die Jahre 1430 und 1432 datierte Widmungen im Antiphonar nennen als Auftraggeber einen Johannes Fabri aus dem Mainzer Handwerk, der 17 Jahre später zum Prior des Mainzer Karmeliterklosters aufgestiegen ist. Ein dargestelltes Stifterpaar im Graduale lässt auch dort auf Auftraggeber aus dem Bürgertum schließen, die die Handschrift wahrscheinlich im zweiten Viertel des 15. Jahrhunderts in Auftrag gaben. Die in der Literatur postulierte Karmeliterwerkstatt muss bezweifelt werden, da die ihr zugewiesenen Werke einer kritischen Überprüfung nicht standhalten.

A text-book of the history of painting,

"Books recommended" at the head of each chapter.

Hand book of the Pierce art collection of reproduction of the masterpieces of painting, from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, with suggestions for the use and enjoyment of the collection and a brief history of the development of the art of painting.

Mode of access: Internet.

A text-book of the history of painting /

Includes bibliographies and index.

A text-book of the history of painting,

Mode of access: Internet.

Painting and decorating working methods : a text book for the apprentice, journeyman, house painter, decorator /

Publisher's advertisements, 10 p. at end.

Everybody's paint book. A complete guide to the art of outdoor and indoor painting. Designed for the special use of those who wish to do their own work, and consisting of practical lessons in plain painting, varnishing, polishing, staining, paper-hanging, kalsomining, etc.

Pages 184-188, advertising matter.

Painting and painters' materials: a book of facts for painters and those who use or deal in paint materials.

Bibliography: p. [449]-451.

Book Reviews: "Fashion Media: Past and Present"

The book Fashion Media: Past and Present is a timely insight into the historical relationship between fashion and media. Edited by Djurdja Bartlett (Senior Research Fellow at the London College of Fashion), Shaun Cole (Course Leader for the MA in the History and Culture of Fashion and MA Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion) and Agnès Rocamora (Reader in Social and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion), Fashion Media offers a wide historical perspective on how painting, photography, film, television and the Internet have intersected with fashion. The book also provides a useful understanding of social and cultural key issues related to this synergy...

[Book review] Instruction Paintings

Tony Mann provides a review of the book: Yoko Ono, Instruction Paintings, Weatherhill Inc., 1996, ISBN 0-8348-0348-8, £12.99

[Book review] Piero della Francesca: A Mathematician's art by J.V. Field, Yale University Press.

Review of the book 'Piero della Francesca: A Mathematician’s Art' by J.V. Field, Yale University Press, 420 pp, £35 ISBN 0300103425.

Psyche and the arts: Jungian approaches to music, architecture, literature, painting and film

Does art connect the individual psyche to history and culture? Psyche and the Arts challenges existing ideas about the relationship between Jung and art, and offers exciting new dimensions to key issues such as the role of image in popular culture, and the division of psyche and matter in art form. Divided into three sections - Getting into Art, Challenging the Critical Space and Interpreting Art in the World - the text shows how Jungian ideas can work with the arts to illuminate both psychological theory and aesthetic response. Psyche and the Arts offers new critical visions of literature, film, music, architecture and painting, as something alive in the experience of creators and audiences challenging previous Jungian criticism. This approach demonstrates Jung’s own belief that art is a healing response to collective cultural norms. This diverse yet focused collection from international contributors invites the reader to seek personal and cultural value in the arts, and will be essential reading for Jungian analysts, trainees and those more generally interested in the arts. [From the Publisher]

The History of Rome in Painting

There are many paths to reach Rome, immense field open to the eye through the centuries and days, where the presence of the story is haunting. All the artists came to Rome: Italians of various Italian and also French, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, English and Americans. These painters whose works tell its long history for having lived in the glare of light forever are the Roman pantheon of arts: what are all the anonymous authors of the frescoes of ancient Rome and medieval, but Fabriano, Cimabue , Giotto, Botticelli, Raphael, Giulio Romano, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Guido Reni, Guercino, Titian, Vasari, Velasquez, Le Nain, Poussin, Zuccari, Van Wittel, Eckersberg, Giraudet, David, Panini, Hubert Robert, Reynolds, Fuseli, Ingres, Sargent, Caffi, Vernet, Turner, Corot, Caffi, De Chirico, etc..