Two Renaissance Book Collectors is an illustrated study of the lives and works of Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. Jean Grolier, one of four Treasurers of France, is the most famous of all patrons of bookbinding, and has been described as the `Prince of Bibliophiles'. This volume contains the first full account of his life since 1866. It shows that his date of birth has been miscalculated by ten years, explains why he commissioned no bindings for five years in the 1530s, and includes a list of his bindings classified by workshop. Grolier's younger contemporary, the Spanish diplomat Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, was a greater scholar and reader than Grolier, though not so great a bibliophile. He formed a celebrated collection of Greek manuscripts while ambassador in Venice from 1540 to 1546, and was proficient in Latin, Italian, and possibly Arabic, in addition to his knowledge of Greek. He wrote poetry in Spanish and his history of the Morisco revolt is one of the classics of Spanish literature. Two Renaissance Book Collectors prints an unpublished catalogue of his Greek manuscripts and a catalogue of his library of printed books. A description of the bindings he commissioned as an ambassador is also provided, and leads on to an account of Venetian bookbinding in the sixteenth century. Both Grolier and Hurtado de Mendoza spent a number of years in Italy in their youth and were deeply influenced by Italian taste and culture.

Two Renaissance Book Collectors: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (Lyell Lectures in Bibliography)

Biographies & Memoirs

Hobson, Anthony

Historical

Oxford University Press

J.W. Waterhouse was one of the most successful painters of the Victorian age, with many of his paintings becoming archetypal Victorian images. In this book the author, a practicing painter and teacher, gives an artist's appreciation of Waterhouse as a master of Romantic Classicism.

Art and Life of J.W. Waterhouse

[Waterhouse, J. W.]

Rizzoli

Physical description; 320 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), maps, portraits ; 32 cm. Subject; Libraries - history.

Great libraries

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

When it was first published in 1990, this book was an important study (the first for over sixty years) of north Italian and Parisian bindings by a distinguished authority who has elegantly considered the twin claims of ornament and patronage. The decorative possibilities of book binding were transformed during the third quarter of the fifteenth century through the work of antiquaries and scribes centred in Padua. Gilt-tooled elements taken from Islamic bookbindings and metal work, antique monuments and inscriptions and classical gems were adapted to create a new style. Italian men of letters and collectors enthusiastic for the New Learning carried the Paduan fashion to Central and Northern Europe, and Francis I's respect for learning and the patronage of two successive kings kindled a final blaze of creative brilliance in sixteenth-century France.

Humanists and Bookbinders: The Origins and Diffusion of Humanistic Bookbinding, 1459–1559

Computers & Technology

Graphics & Design

Cambridge University Press

This book studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic "cabinet" of fine books. Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a full Catalogue is provided for the first time. Books commissioned by Jean Grolier, "the Prince of Bibliophiles", have long been famous. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet and historian, a Greek scholar and Arabist. This book contains valuable information on Grolier and Hurtado de Mendoza's work, including catalogues, lists of bindings and indexes of printers, publishers, editors, commentators and translators.

Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

John W. Waterhouse (1849-1917) was acclaimed during his lifetime as one of England's finest painters. This monograph has 97 illustrations, 59 in color.

J.W. Waterhouse

Phaidon Inc Ltd

The art and life of J.W. Waterhouse, RA, 1849-1917

Rizzoli, in association with Christie's

Discusses the history and manufacture of lanterns and explains their role in 19th- and early 20th-century commerce, technology, and domestic culture

Lanterns That Lit Our World: How to Identify, Date and Restore Old Railroad, Marine, Fire, Carriage, Farm and Other Lanterns

Golden Hill Pr

Crafts & Hobbies

Lanterns That Lit Our World: Old Railroad, Marine, Fire, Carriage, Farm & Other Lanterns (Book 2)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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