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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Christmas Illuminated: Prestigious Manuscripts from Around the Fifteenth Century in the Bavarian State Library Collection

Christmas Illuminated: Prestigious Manuscripts from Around the Fifteenth Century in the Bavarian State Library Collection

Pfändtner, Karl-Georg

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ISBN10: 3506732439
ISBN13: 9783506732439
Publisher: Brill Schoningh
Published: Jan 12 2018
Pages: 73
Weight: 12.76
Language: English
From the outset, Christian theology was occupied with the question about the Son of God born as a child, and particularly with the birth of Jesus. Not until the late Middle Ages did artistic depictions begin to suggest the familiar atmosphere with which we associate Christmas celebrations today. During that time, artists transferred the event of God's incarnation into the environs of the affiuent European city-states, and they placed their conceptualizations of nature into surroundings not unlike our own. This exhibition presents the Christmas story as observed in European book illumination from around the fifteenth/sixteenth centuries in German, Flemish, French, and ltalian manuscripts. They belong to the most beautiful and valuable codices of this epoch held by the Bavarian State Library, and present illustrations of the Christmas story from the annunciation to the flight to Egypt.

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