Renaissance illuminators in Paris : artists & artisans 1500-1715 /

"The commercial manuscript book-trade in Paris, that had begun as early as the mid-12th century, was severely disrupted by the arrival of the first printing presses in Paris around 1475. This new invention converted a traditional system of book production that had developed and flourished over...

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Author / Creator: Rouse, Richard H. (Author)
Other Authors / Creators:Rouse, Mary A., author.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: London ; Turnhout [Belgium] : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2019.
Series:Survey of manuscripts illuminated in France.
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300 |a 280 pages :  |b illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ;  |c 29 cm. 
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490 1 |a [Survey of manuscripts illuminated in France ;  |v 5] 
505 0 |a The Continuation in the Illuminator's Trade in Renaissance Paris -- Beyond Definition: Other Survival Strategies in the Illuminator's Trade -- Contracts and Inventories -- Apprenticeships -- The Vanishing Point? -- Appendixes. University Suppôts, c. 1505-1518 ; Denial of an Illuminator's Guild, 1608 ; A Parisian Illuminator Hired at Chartres, 1546 ; An Apprenticeship Contract, 1541 -- Register of Parisian Illuminators and Artisans of the Manuscript Book 1500-1715. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267) and indexes. 
520 |a "The commercial manuscript book-trade in Paris, that had begun as early as the mid-12th century, was severely disrupted by the arrival of the first printing presses in Paris around 1475. This new invention converted a traditional system of book production that had developed and flourished over the centuries from a handcraft to the mechanical printing press. It was a change that affected not only the livelihood of those who wrote the books and the artists who decorated them, but also the social life of the whole workforce involved in the production of books. This publication traces the activities to which 16th- and 17th-century book artisans had to turn, faced as they were with a dwindling market for manuscripts. Those most affected were the illuminators and scribes who now had to seek alternative ways of making a living and so devise strategems for finding employment in other trades that would benefit from their skills. Thus the reader will discover well-known artists and illuminators finding jobs like adding illustrations to printed books, colouring wood-block prints and designing patterns and motifs for embroideries, tapestries and even glass and metal objects. A most interesting opportunity for illuminators was to get involved with the decorating of fans, a new fashion promoted late in the 17th century by the Sun King Louis XIV himself. In addition to the richly illustrated text, the volume also includes a Register of more than 500 named Illuminators in alphabetical order, giving also their affiliation to their alternative trades and listing personal details including family members and professional associates. The authors Richard and Mary Rouse, who are already widely known for their thorough research into the medieval book trade in Paris with their volume Manuscripts and their Makers, published a similar biographical Register of documented book producers up to the year 1500. With the present publication they are able to reconstruct how much the younger members and relatives of whole families of previous manuscript illuminators were able to continue to contribute to the now newly developing book-trade. This volume is therefore not only a contribution to the history of art and that of the book, but also provides a vivid glimpse into the social history of the period."--  |c Publisher's website. 
520 8 |a Johannes Gutenberg had perfected at Mainz a workable press using movable type to print books by the 1450s at latest, an invention quickly seized upon in the Italian cities and, a bit more cautiously (by 1470), in Paris. Yet the production of manuscript books, and the careers of those who wrote them and of the artists who painted in them, continued in Paris for two centuries and more after Gutenberg?s revolution in book-making. The Rouses follow the traces of this continuity in the midst of change. They document the various stratagems that Parisian manuscript artisans eventually adopted in their attempt to survive, as the market for manuscripts and the demand for their services inexorably dwindled. In its death throes, the process ended with a brilliant supernova of gorgeous manuscripts made for the Sun King in the eighteenth century. 
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