Description
The Annunciation: Mystery, beauty and excellence. Selected images in Books of Hours. Author: Fernando Villaseñor Sebastián.
A careful selection of the best pages miniada in the Books of Medieval Hours of the scene of the Annunciation.
The beauty of the illustrations that make up a Book of Hours was one of the factors that propelled his success among the elites of medieval society. The scene of the Annunciation, one of the most relevant and beautiful executed brilliantly by the illuminating Master, is one of the most ambitious images of the illuminated manuscript.
The pages of this book offer a beautiful selection of images corresponding to the Evangelical episode of the Annunciation, extracted from thirty Books of Hours chosen for the delicacy of their images. Immerse yourself in the medieval culture contemplating this careful collection of images. A careful explanatory text accompanies each of them awakening, even more if possible, greater admiration when contemplating these beautiful artistic creations.
In this book we propose to offer the reader the possibility of contemplating the beautiful, the noble, the mysterious and the aesthetic that shelters each of the thirty selected images of a group of codices, which are part of our artistic and cultural heritage that we have inherited Of our ancestors. Each scene is different, it is conceived individually, none is equal among this bunch of images; certainly there are parameters established by the development of the narrative, but the painters in his workshop began their work by making the miniatures that served as the head for each of the Hours and, without any doubt, in a spectacular way, the Annunciation and therefore it is always one of the most attractive for its beauty.
Hardback book illustrated, format: 24.5 x 32 cm. 150 pages beautifully illustrated with the best 30 scenes of the Annunciation.
Exemplary in perfect condition.
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