easts Factual and Fantastic features vivid and charming details from the wealth of manuscripts in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library, along with a lively text; together both word and image provide an accessible and delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world.
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Elizabeth Morrison is Associate Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Delightful Pictures,
By Melinda "History Buff" (Los Angeles, California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beasts Factual and Fantastic (Medieval Imagination) (Hardcover)
The cover features one of my favorite Getty manuscripts. Inside are photos of beasts from a variety of Getty mss, not just bestiaries. This is another way of getting familiar with their collection. The captions are good, but the photos of the ms. pages are the strength of this book.
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This review is from: Beasts Factual and Fantastic (Medieval Imagination) (Hardcover)
For anyone into Medieval illuminations, this book offers page after page of delicious reproductions from Medieval illuminated manuscripts and books. The text and reproductions detail animals - both mythical, fantastical and real in a most enjoyable book. I look forward to purchasing others in the series.
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a charming little volume,
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Elizabeth Morrison's BEASTS reproduces illuminations from medieval manuscripts in the Getty Collection depicting various real and imagined animals. The demon trying to tempt Thomas Aquinas and the scene of the animals paying homage to the Christ Child struck me as especially noteworthy.
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