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VANISHED RENAISSANCE ILLUMINATIONS

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Sarovcova M.

Umění (Art)

2007

vol. 55

issue 5

374-386

This article is devoted to a pair of late 18th-century archival sources - the earlier one, dated 1781, is by Ambroz Strahl and the later one, dated 1785 and titled 'Materialia ad historiam urbis Brodae Bohem(icalis)', is by Antonin Hill - which had heretofore stood as a far from depleted fountainhead of information on the painted decorations of 16th-century illuminated manuscripts in the margins of scholarly interest. Both sources offer - following a critical reappraisal - reliable descriptions of the contents of eight illuminated manuscripts originating in Cesky Brod and Litomerice and focused on codicological descriptions of their contents and particularly of individual illuminations. A section dealing with illuminations determines their iconography, codicological background and contains detailed descriptions of coats of arms and guild emblems, with supplementary dating provided. In the context of the descriptions, references are made to particular archival sources in connection with those who commissioned and donated the manuscripts. Both sources, with detailed descriptions of illuminated manuscripts, extend in a fundamental manner our knowledge on the existence of a great many illuminated musical sources, which - with the exception of four illuminated manuscripts - have not been preserved. In the case of the descriptions of the four preserved manuscripts, their crucial significance in evaluating the original extent of their painted decorations and the iconographic programme of cut out of 19th-century illuminated folios so as to order these musical sources and their original bindings according to a more exact chronology has been made evident.

BETWEEN ANACHRONISM AND HISTORICISM. NEW VIEWS ON BOHEMIAN RENAISSANCE BOOK PAINTING

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Sarovcova M.

Umění (Art)

2007

vol. 55

issue 4

274-285

This article seeks to define several new themes and possibilities that can be exploited in the interpretation of Bohemian Renaissance book painting. The first part of the study focuses on a summary and critical re-evaluation of the existing literature on the subject and on the identification of the key perspectives and methods that have influenced the way researchers approach the field. The second part of the study outlines a new concept for the understanding of the Bohemian Renaissance illuminated choir books made to order for the Utraquist Church music religious confraternitie (modus legendi). The angle of vision emphasised is the interpretation of these materials in broader cultural and social context. An article by leading Czech historian Frantisek Smahel 'From the Medieval to the Modern Age: modi legendi et videndi' - has been a source of inspiration in this respect. The complex group of illuminated musical sources of the Bohemian Renaissance may be grasped in a sense formulated by Frantisek Smahel. He writes that at a time when almost all the European continent was already governed by a modern modus videndi, in Cisalpine reformation movements we can identify, on the contrary, a certain turning away from the 'eye' towards the 'ear'. In addition to this theory the author outlines in the form of certain impulses the direction of possible interpretation of the painted illustration itself and its iconography (the reception of protestant iconography, the person of the donor). .

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VANISHED RENAISSANCE ILLUMINATIONS

BETWEEN ANACHRONISM AND HISTORICISM. NEW VIEWS ON BOHEMIAN RENAISSANCE BOOK PAINTING