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African American Art Today: Four Major Artists / an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Skunder Boghossian, Valente Malangatana, Twins Seven Seven, and Amir I.M. Nour. New York:, African-American Institute, 1974. -
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BLOG ARCHIVE
- Chronicling Disaster in Mid-19th century Japan
- Catherine Perrot: An Early Treatise on Miniature Painting
- Before Ruscha?: All the Buildings on Amsterdam’s Canal Streets…ca. 1768
- Art Between the Wars: “Seikigun” and Experiments in ‘Synthetic Art’
- A Medieval Woman Artist and Musician at Work: The Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock
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Tag Archives: Medieval art
A Medieval Woman Artist and Musician at Work: The Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock
Medieval illuminated manuscripts were produced collaboratively by groups of artists and craftspeople – including scribes, illuminators, pigment and parchment preparers, and book binders – whose identities were usually unrecorded. Though some of these manuscripts have been attributed, usually by stylistic … Continue reading
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A Scrolling Facsimile of the Bayeux “Tapestry” in Marquand
https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99107157823506421 In 2020, the controversial “Brexit” finally severed a relatively new (less than fifty years) bond between Britain and Europe. Marquand Library recently acquired an unusual item that recorded a much earlier, even more tumultuous change in the relationship between … Continue reading
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