The history of Alexander the Great : an illuminated manuscript of Vasco da Lucena's French translation of the ancient text by Quintus Curtius Rufus

by: McKendrick, S.

Price: 139,00 EURO

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This book reproduces in color all fourteen images from a fifteenth-century manuscript, now part of the J. Paul Getty Museum collection. One of the finest illuminated secular manuscripts produced in the Netherlands during the period, the manuscript features miniatures that illustrate important
episodes from the short life of the legendary Macedonian general. Titled Les fais d'Alexandre le grant, the manuscript is itself a translation of a text attributed to first-century Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, whose Latin text is one of our principal literary sources for our knowledge of
Alexander. McKendrick's authoritative text places the Getty's manuscript in its contexts as history and art and explains how the text and illuminations have much to tell us as well about the politics and aesthetics of the Burgundian Netherlands and the development of secular culture in Western
Europe.

Foreword / John Walsh
Map of the world of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great: history, legend, and Curtius's Historiae Alexandri magni
Map of the Burgundian Netherlands
Vasco da Lucena's Les fais d'Alexandre le grant
The Getty Manuscript
Final assessment: From Fabula to historia
Plates: the miniatures and their subjects
Appendix 1. Summary description of the Getty Manuscript
Appendix 2. Surviving manuscripts of Vasco's translation
Appendix 3. Subjects of the large miniatures in the Getty, Bodmer, Jena, and Paris manuscripts

Issued in a case

Subjects:
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. Art
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. Art
Art
California Malibu
Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Illustrations
Enluminure Californie Malibu
Enluminure flamande
Enluminure gothique Flandre
Europe Flanders
Franse handschriften
Geïllustreerde handschriften
Historia Alexandri Magni (Curtius Rufus, Quintus)
Illuminated Manuscripts
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Illumination of books and manuscripts California Malibu
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic Flanders
Illustrated works
J. Paul Getty Museum
Les fais d'Alexandre le grant
Livre des fais d'Alexandre le Grand
Livre des fais d'Alexandre le Grand Illustrations
Lucena, Vasco Fernandes de. Illustrations

xi, 105 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 44 cm.

Getty Museum monographs on illuminated manuscripts

The history of Alexander the Great : an illuminated manuscript of Vasco da Lucena's French translation of the ancient text by Quintus Curtius Rufus

by: McKendrick, S.

• ISBN-13: 9780892363711 / 978-0-89236-371-1
• ISBN-03: 0892363711 / 0-89236-371-1
• The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California, 1996

Price: 139,00 EURO

1 copy in stock