Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500
- ISBN-10
- 1606060287
- ISBN-13
- 9781606060285
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 366
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Getty Publications
- Authors
- Elizabeth Morrison, J. Paul Getty Museum, Anne D. Hedeman
Description
This exquisite volume beautifully reproduces and insightfully examines the most important illuminations found in French history manuscripts.
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