Buettner (art, Smith College) provides a detailed examination of the French translation of Boccaccio's illuminated manuscript De Mulieribus Claris, known as the Cleres Femmes . After considering the manuscript as a commercial and cultural object, Buettner provides a semiotics-inspired exploration o
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Buettner (art, Smith College) provides a detailed examination of the French translation of Boccaccio's illuminated manuscript De Mulieribus Claris, known as the Cleres Femmes . After considering the manuscript as a commercial and cultural object, Buettner provides a semiotics-inspired exploration o
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Add this copy of Boccaccio's Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes: Systems of to cart. $19.95, good condition, Sold by loudavis rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Great Barrington, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by University of Washington Press.
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Good in good dust jacket. Owner name and a few light pencil markings. Jacket has a two inch tear and a fold at the bottom edge. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 149 p. Monographs on the Fine Arts. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of Boccaccio's "Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes": Systems of to cart. $26.25, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by College Art Association.
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VG/VG. A burgundy casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a blue spine. Pages: (7), viii-x, 1-139, (58). Contains fifty-seven pages of plates, mostly in black-and-white. "The first surviving illuminated manuscript of the French translation of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, known as the Cleres femmes (now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris), is the subject of this book. The manuscript was commissioned by a Parisian merchant, Jacques Raponde, as a New Year's gift for the duke of Burgundy, Philip the Bold. This innovative aspect of the commission, where a merchant rather than a prince acted as the patron of the manuscript, provides the. Subject for the first part of Buettner's study. In addition to sketching the Valois rulers' practice of collecting illuminated manuscripts and to tracing the reasons for the successful reception of Boccaccio's work in this courtly milieu, the author delineates the role of merchants in Parisian artistic production around 1400." Contents are as follows: I. The Manuscript as Object. Jacques Raponde, Merchant of Manuscripts. The De mulieribus claris as a French Success--II. Images as Readers. A Pictorial Gallery of Women. System and Reality--III. Pictorial Elements as Meaning. On Costumes, Bodies, and Gestures. On Colors and Light. On Spatial Inscriptions. On Visualizing Time--Appendix. Fifteenth-Century Des cleres et nobles femmes Manuscripts.
Add this copy of Boccaccio's Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes: Systems of to cart. $26.95, like new condition, Sold by Broad Street Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Branchville, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Univ of Washington Pr.
Add this copy of Boccaccio's Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes Systems of to cart. $27.50, like new condition, Sold by Nilbog Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by College Art Association/University of Washington Press.
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As New in As New jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. 1st Printing. This is an As New copy of the first edition (1st printing) in an As New dust jacket. Illustrated. This "Monograph on the Fine Arts Volume L111 (College Art Association).
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Add this copy of Boccaccio's Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes: Systems of to cart. $36.75, good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by College Art Association in Association with University of Washington Press.
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VG-(Light edgewear to boards; light age toning to page edges; interior is clean; binding is solid. ). VG (Light edgewear to DJ) Burgundy boards with gilt lettering on the spine; blue DJ with color illustration and white and black lettering; x, 139 pp.; 57 unnumbered pages of plates; richly illustrated. "The first surviving illuminated manuscript of the French translation of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, known as the Cleres femmes (now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris), is the subject of this book. The manuscript was commissioned by a Parisian merchant, Jacques Raponde, as a New Year's gift for the duke of Burgundy, Philip the Bold. This innovative aspect of the commission, where a merchant rather than a prince acted as the patron of the manuscript, provides the. Subject for the first part of Buettner's study. In addition to sketching the Valois rulers' practice of collecting illuminated manuscripts and to tracing the reasons for the successful reception of Boccaccio's work in this courtly milieu, the author delineates the role of merchants in Parisian artistic production around 1400."--WorldCat.
Add this copy of Boccaccio's Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes: Systems of to cart. $40.40, fair condition, Sold by Devils In The Detail Ltd rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oxford, OXFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1996 by University of Washington Press.
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Fair. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION-VERY GOOD-HARDBACK-ENGLISH LANGUAGE-light wear and scuff marks to jacket, pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 149 p. Monographs on the Fine Arts.
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