The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duke of Berry

by Marcel Thomas

Commentaries augment 80 plates drawn from Books of Hours, Bibles, and other illuminated-manuscript works produced in Europe during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

Genres: Art

119 pages, Hardcover

Published January 17, 1979

Reviews

[Alyssa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had enough detail to be educational even for wide readers in the subject, but was concise enough that a casually interested reader would enjoy it, too. Beautiful, full color pages.

[MaryJeanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m neither an artist nor a historian, but I chanced upon this beautiful volume in a used book store. It’s written primarily for readers with some background in manuscript illumination, which I don’t have, but I loved it anyway. The high quality plates alone are worth five stars.