Böcker av Millard Meiss

"The Tres Riches Heures" is the most luxurious and most famous examples of manuscript illumination in late medieval Europe. This title reproduces each of the miniatures in "The Tres Riches Heures" to scale and in full colour, capturing both the subtle colour and minute detail of these historic images.

Presents a study of this ancient manuscript.

Here-in a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events-is the first extended study of the history of Florentine and Sienese painting in the later fourteenth century, in the period following the plague of the Black Death 1348.