![]() ![]() Although representations of interiors inhabited by the ruling classes prevail in existing pictorial sources and in this publication, they are supplemented by images of households of merchants, craftsmen and peasants. In contrast to publications that present research on architecture and art objects associated with and commissioned by the ruling political and intellectual elites, this book attempts to consider medieval and Renaissance European interiors at all levels of society. Romanesque miniatures showing interiors, which are very stylized and, although beautiful, rendered far less realistically, are also briefly considered and illustrated with a few examples. The discussion of the subject therefore concentrates on the social and stylistic aspects of Gothic and Renaissance domestic settings in these countries and focuses on the cultural supremacy of Flanders and Italy, the European trendsetters of the time. Some of the best depictions showing realistic-looking interiors date from the fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth century and were produced in France, Flanders, Italy, England, Germany and Poland. These are supplemented by several additional visual resources and miniatures from other libraries and museums. The majority of the illuminations chosen for this publication come from the British Library’s own manuscripts collections. This book attempts to show how illuminations reflect domestic interiors and provide information on them, conveying the broad context of stylistic features, cultural trends and social history in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Most of the existing research on illuminated manuscripts concentrates on traditional art-historical aspects. Some of the illuminations contain astonishingly minute detail and crispness in their representations, and their quality is occasionally comparable to that of famous panel paintings and murals depicting similar subjects. Miniatures frequently illustrate a wide range of architectural elements, furniture, objects of everyday use and luxury goods. Countless images in manuscripts depict house and household and some of them astonish with their realistic-looking details. Illuminated manuscripts constitute a rich resource for the study of representations of medieval and Renaissance domestic interiors. ![]() (2016) Medieval and Renaissance Interiors in Illuminated Manuscripts. ![]()
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