2005-09-11 23:37:04弓長
Macclesfield Psalter
其實我不喜歡唸書; 可是還可以接受有插圖的書...
The Cambridge Illuminations
Ten Centuries of Book Production
in the Medieval West
26 July - 11 December 2005
Adeane, Mellon & Shiba Galleries, Fitzwilliam Museum,
and
Cambridge University Library
The Cambridge Illuminations
Ten Centuries of Book Production
in the Medieval West
26 July - 11 December 2005
Adeane, Mellon & Shiba Galleries, Fitzwilliam Museum,
and
Cambridge University Library
Highlights on Macclesfield Psalter
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/macclesfield/introduction.html
The Macclesfield Psalter is the most important rediscovery of an English manuscript in living memory. It is also one of the very few surviving representatives of a great phase in the history of British painting, perhaps the last, at any rate before the period of Constable and Turner, when it attained a truly international stature.
The Psalter, containing the psalms of the Old Testament and other prayers, was the principal Christian prayer book of the Middle Ages, and the question arises: what was a man urinating into a chamber pot held by a deformed giant, or a woman declining the advances of a man endowed with a meaningfully erect sword, doing in a book of private religious devotion? Such scenes, once thought to be purely decorative, are now interpreted as often having literal or symbolic meaning in relation to particular words in the text or to the manuscript’s patron.
It is this dichotomy between a deeply religious text and the humorous marginal scenes which makes this tiny book a monument of historical, cultural and psychological significance.
Professor Michael Kauffmann
Trustee, National Art Collections Fund
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/macclesfield/introduction.html
The Macclesfield Psalter is the most important rediscovery of an English manuscript in living memory. It is also one of the very few surviving representatives of a great phase in the history of British painting, perhaps the last, at any rate before the period of Constable and Turner, when it attained a truly international stature.
The Psalter, containing the psalms of the Old Testament and other prayers, was the principal Christian prayer book of the Middle Ages, and the question arises: what was a man urinating into a chamber pot held by a deformed giant, or a woman declining the advances of a man endowed with a meaningfully erect sword, doing in a book of private religious devotion? Such scenes, once thought to be purely decorative, are now interpreted as often having literal or symbolic meaning in relation to particular words in the text or to the manuscript’s patron.
It is this dichotomy between a deeply religious text and the humorous marginal scenes which makes this tiny book a monument of historical, cultural and psychological significance.
Professor Michael Kauffmann
Trustee, National Art Collections Fund
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