![]() ![]() Widely popular in Europe throughout the Middle Ages, the phenomenon of courtly love is said to have had its origins with the troubadours of the eleventh century. In its true sense it referred to a stylised and idealistic relationship between a knight. Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,Īnecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week. Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography, Postal Service Previews 2009 Commemorative Stamp Program The Romance of the Rose: Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts The Writing of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940 Merseyside Maritime Museum Opens New Titanic Wreck Exhibitsįresno Art Museum Shows Theophilus Brown: Paintingsįree Gallery Talk at the Clark Explores Musical Group on January 8 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts to Open China! China! China in February ![]() Martin Frommelt: Early and Recent Paintings on View at Kunstmuseum Liechtensteinįuller Craft Presents Only East Coast Exhibition of Craft in America-Expanding Traditions MoMA Presents the Films of Terence Davies from the Museum's CollectionĪntony Gormley to Exhibit at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Summer of 2009 Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play to Open at the Art Gallery of Hamilton P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Founder and Director Alanna Heiss to RetireĪmalias Street 5a by Inta Ruka on View at Moderna MuseetĮlo: Inner Exile - Outer Limits on View at MUDAM in Luxembourg Setting the Stage: Twentieth-Century Theater Models on View at Bruce MuseumĬarnegie Museum of Art to Open Matsubara: A Celebration in Pittsburgh in 2009 Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie on View at the Menil Collection National Gallery of Art to Show Corot to Monet Next Summer Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to Open Kees Van Dongen: A Fauve in the City Other ivories have iconography that closely parallels the romantic illustrations in the manuscripts on display. Among the items on display are an ivory comb, two mirror backs and the Walters’ well-known ivory casket which depicts famous love stories such as the tragedy of Tristan and Iseult. Like Rose manuscripts, carved ivories were prized luxury items produced by skilled artisans for wealthy patrons. The Walters’ exhibition will also display a number of carved ivories from the museum’s medieval collection. In the meantime, visitors to the Walters can access the collection through internet kiosks in the museum’s manuscripts gallery and leaf through medieval books, zoom in on intriguing details, and compare illuminated manuscripts from around the world. ![]() Completion of the digital library is slated for late 2009. The online collection will contain full digital reproductions of 150 Romance of the Rose manuscripts from the above libraries as well as the Bibliothèque nationale de France. “This exhibition is a wonderful collaborative endeavor that makes some of the greatest medieval images of love accessible as never before,” comments William Noel, curator of manuscripts and rare books at the Walters.ĭeveloped in collaboration with the Eisenhower Libraries and the Department of Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University, the Walters exhibition celebrates the launch of the Roman de la Rose Digital Library. Paul Getty Museum and the University of Chicago. During his pursuit, he instructs readers on the art of courtly love with frequent bawdy comments and surprising detours into alchemy and astronomy.ĭating from the 13th century, the poem was one of the most popular medieval literary texts, as illustrated by the Walters’ own copy of the Romance of the Rose as well as loans from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Morgan Library & Museum, the J. The exhibition features lavishly illuminated copies of The Romance of the Rose, a book-length poem written in Old French wherein the narrator enters a dream world and falls in love with a Rose, an allegorical representation of a young woman. BALTIMORE, MD.- Romance is in the air this winter when Romance of the Rose: Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts opens at the Walters Art Museum on January 24, 2009. ![]()
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