The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume IV: Illuminations

by Pia Palladino, Sandra Hindman, Mirella Levi D'Ancona

Book Overview

This book presents the exceptional group of illuminations in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in this collection represent the major schools of illumination that flourished in Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Robert Lehman (1892-1969), one of the great private art collectors of the twentieth century, collected these illuminations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691059713
• ISBN13: 9780691059716
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 11.3"