[MR] Two book reviews (!)

[Karen]

For what it's worth, the "France 1500" exhibition will be coming to Chicago in 
February; see http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/RenaissanceFrance 
for more information.

Karen Larsdatter
www.larsdatter.com





----- Original Message ----
From: Garth G. Groff <ggg9y at virginia.edu>
To: Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org; isenfir at virginia.edu
Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 8:55:10 AM
Subject: [MR] Two book reviews (!)

Noble friends,

This morning's new books had two very lovely French art books that might be of 
great interest to Scadians. Forgive me for leaving out the diacritic marks in 
the capitalized titles, but my email program won't handle them except as 
paste-ins.

FRANCE 1500, ENTRE MOYEN AGE ET RENAISSANCE by Geneviève Bresc-Bautie, Thierry 
Crépin-Leblond and Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye (ISBN 9782711856992; our call # 
N6845 .F72 2010) is an exhibition catalog from Les Galeries nationales in Paris. 
As the title suggest, this work covers art from the end of the 15th century, and 
includes paintings, sculpture, architecture, stained glass, medallions, tomb 
effigies, playing cards, furniture, and much more. The lavish illustrations are 
in brilliant color, and there are 399 pages of eye candy here. Much of the art 
is religious in nature, but there are plenty of secular works to ogle as well.