Picturing Piety: The Book of Hours

by Roger Wieck, Sandra Hindman, Wieck

The Book of Hours was the "bestseller" of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Picturing Piety presents two dozen Books of Hours mostly dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Examples from France and the Netherlands are presented chronologically with illustrations in color for each entry. Highlights include a fine early Dutch Book of Hours with illuminations closely related to those by the artists of the Utrecht History Bibles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190347065X
• ISBN13: 9781903470657
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 11.6"