The Book of Kings : art, war, and the Morgan Library's Medieval picture Bible /
Noel, William.
Weiss, Daniel H.
Pierpont Morgan Library.Manuscript. M.638.
Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.)
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Baltimore : Walters Art Museum ; London : Third Millennium ,
c2002.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Md. from October 27-December 29, 2002.
Exhibition centered around an incomplete manuscript of Old Testament illustrations, possibly commissioned by Louis IX of France and produced in Paris ca. 1250. Ms. is preserved in the Morgan Library under the shelfmark M.638.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-216) and index.
Preface / Roger S. Wieck -- Foreword / Gary Vikan -- Portraying the past, illuminating the present: the art of the Morgan Library Picture Bible / Daniel Weiss -- The Morgan Picture Bible and the art of narrative: Picturing the Bible in the Thirteenth Century / C. Griffith Mann -- Picturing the world in the Thirteenth Century / Kelly M. Holbert -- Louis IX, the Picture Bible, and the culture of crusading: The politics of war: France and the Holy Land / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- The art of war: Thirteenth-Century arms and armor / Stephen N. Fliegel -- The rituals of war: departure for crusade in Thirteenth-Century France / William Chester Jordan -- The reception of the Morgan Picture Bible: The first iconographer of the Morgan Picture Bible / William Noel -- Shah `Abbas and his Picture Bible / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- Catalogue of the exhibition / Cathleen A. Fleck and Richard A. Leson: The Morgan Library Picture Bible on exhibition -- Catalogue and checklist -- Bibliography -- Index
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Bible.
Bible.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, French
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic
War in art