Choirs of angels
Subtitle: painting in Italian choir books, 1300-1500
By: Barbara Drake Boehm
Contributors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Series: Bulletin (Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)) -- v. 66, no. 3.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Exhibitions; Service books (Music); Illustrations; Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts; Italian Illumination of books and manuscripts; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Description: "More than two dozen leaves of the most splendid examples from the Museums little-known collection of choral manuscript illuminations will be exhibited, coinciding with the publication of a Museum Bulletin devoted to the subject. With jewel-like color and gold, these precious images--which include scenes of singing angels, Hebrew prophets, heroic saints, and Renaissance princes--spring from the unique, artful marriage of painting, text, and music. The Museums collection includes works created for churches across Italy, from Florence to Venice, from Cremona to Naples, by some of the most celebrated painters of their day."--Metropolitan Museum of Art web site.
Notes: "Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter 2009, volume LXVI, number 3"

Issued in conjunction with the exhibition "Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choir Books, 13001500," held Nov. 25, 2008-Apr. 12, 2009, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Includes bibliographical references.