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Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1475-1550.(Brief Article)
Maurits Smeyers and Jan Van der Stock. Abrams, $60 (244p) ISBN 0-8109-6318-3
Threatened by advances in book printing, Flemish miniaturists around 1500 responded by making their illustrations of handwritten codices ever more inventive, beautiful and artistically complex. Their illuminations of prayer books, calendars, moral and philosophical treatises, romances, musical scores, official registers and classical and historical texts yielded exquisite works of daring imagination, impeccable observation of people and nature, marvelous color and a remarkably …
