Illuminating Metalwork Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts

The presence of gold, silver, and other metals is a hallmark of decorated manuscripts, the very characteristic that makes them “illuminated.” Medieval artists often used metal pigment and leaf to depict metal objects both real and imagined, such as chalices, crosses, tableware, and even idols; the l...

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Main Author: Ackley, Joseph Salvatore ([Herausgeberin/-geber])
Other Authors: Wearing, Shannon L. ([Herausgeberin/-geber])
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter 2021, ©2022
Series:Sense, Matter, and Medium : 4. New Approaches to Medieval Literary and Material Culture
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505 0 |a Introduction, Preciousness on Parchment: Materiality, Pictoriality, and the Decorated Book Accessible, II Technique Surface Effect and Substance: Precious Metals in Illuminated Manuscripts Nancy K. Turner Accessible, III Representation Metal Labor, Material Conversions: Goldsmiths in the Life of St. Denis and in Parisian Life, ca. 1300 Brigitte Buettner, Copying, Imitation, and Intermediality in Illuminated Ethiopic Manuscripts from the Early Solomonic Period Jacopo Gnisci, The Colors of Metalworks: The Painted Materials of Machinery in Byzantium Roland Betancourt, V Material Translations Metal, Materiality, and Maṣāḥif: Ornamentation in Abbasid Qur’ans Beatrice Leal, Manuscript as Metalwork: Haptic Vision in Early Carolingian Gospel Books Beth Fischer, A “Multimedia” Manuscript: Metalwork and the Siegburg Lectionary Heidi C. Gearhart, Illuminating Luxury: The Gray-Gold Flemish Grisailles Sophia Ronan Rochmes, V Treasuries in Books, Books as Treasuries The Golden Spaces of the Uta Codex Eliza Garrison, The Matter of Memory: Illuminated Metalwork in the Vita of St. Albinus of Angers Sasha Gorjeltchan, Packaging the Sainte-Chapelle Relic Treasury, Paris ca. 1500 Julia Oswald, VI Phenomenology and Piety Pilgrimage across Borders: Painted Pilgrim’s Badges in Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts Megan H. Foster-Campbell, Peripheral Primacy: Metallic Illumination and Material Illusion in the Aussem Hours Susan Barahal and Elizabeth Pugliano , A Curator’s Note: The Tarnished Reception of Remarkable Manuscripts Lynley Anne Herbert, Bibliography, ndex of Manuscripts 
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520 3 |a The presence of gold, silver, and other metals is a hallmark of decorated manuscripts, the very characteristic that makes them “illuminated.” Medieval artists often used metal pigment and leaf to depict metal objects both real and imagined, such as chalices, crosses, tableware, and even idols; the luminosity of these representations contrasted pointedly with the surrounding paints, enriching the page and dazzling the viewer. To elucidate this key artistic tradition, this volume represents the first in-depth scholarly assessment of the depiction of precious-metal objects in manuscripts and the media used to conjure them. From Paris to the Abbasid caliphate, and from Ethiopia to Bruges, the case studies gathered here forge novel approaches to the materiality and pictoriality of illumination. In exploring the semiotic, material, iconographic, and technical dimensions of these manuscripts, the authors reveal the canny ways in which painters generated metallic presence on the page. Illuminating Metalwork is a landmark contribution to the study of the medieval book and its visual and embodied reception, and is poised to be a staple of research in art history and manuscript studies, accessible to undergraduates and specialists alike.