A masterpiece reconstructed
Subtitle: the Hours of Louis XII
By: Thomas Kren ... [et al.] ; edited by Thomas Kren, with Mark Evans.
Contributors: Kren, Thomas, 1950-; Evans, Mark L.; Bourdichon, Jean, 1457?-1521?
Publisher: The J. Paul Getty Museum; J. Paul Getty Museum; British Library
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9780892368297
Subjects: Bourdichon, Jean, 1457?-1521?; Louis XII, King of France, 1462-1515 -- Books and reading; Hours of Louis XII -- Illustrations; Books of hours -- France -- Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts, French; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance -- France
Genres: Illustrations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Oct. 18, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006, and at Victoria and Albert Museum, Feb. 2-May 1, 2006.
Table of contents: title: Jean Bourdichon and the Hours of Louis XII / Janet Backhouse; title: Plates; title: Looking at Louis XII's Bathsheba / Thomas Kren; title: The manuscript painting techniques of Jean Bourdichon / Nancy Turner; title: The rediscovery of a royal manuscript / Mark Evans; title: Appendix (a reconstruction of the Hours of Louis XII).