Comments on: The Hours of the Virgin http://blog.metmuseum.org/artofillumination/2010/03/24/the-hours-of-the-virgin/ Sat, 07 Aug 2010 02:16:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: gabriela raba http://blog.metmuseum.org/artofillumination/2010/03/24/the-hours-of-the-virgin/comment-page-1/#comment-146 gabriela raba Mon, 03 May 2010 04:24:00 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/artofillumination/?p=1788#comment-146 Una obra magnifica , que deslumbra a todos los que no pueden dejar de mirarla, porque atrapa con sus formas y colores, gloriosa la iluminacion y perfeccion en las formas. Una obra magnifica , que deslumbra a todos los que no pueden dejar de mirarla, porque atrapa con sus formas y colores, gloriosa la iluminacion y perfeccion en las formas.

]]> By: Wendy A. Stein http://blog.metmuseum.org/artofillumination/2010/03/24/the-hours-of-the-virgin/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Wendy A. Stein Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:34:39 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/artofillumination/?p=1788#comment-47 Oh, Deirdre, you astonish me again with your capacity to take in the modern with the medieval and reveal the depths of human response that link and lurk and fill our understanding with new depth and new gifts. thanks, kiddo. w Oh, Deirdre, you astonish me again with your capacity to take in the modern with the medieval and reveal the depths of human response that link and lurk and fill our understanding with new depth and new gifts.
thanks, kiddo.
w

]]> By: Deirdre Larkin http://blog.metmuseum.org/artofillumination/2010/03/24/the-hours-of-the-virgin/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Deirdre Larkin Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:12:12 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/artofillumination/?p=1788#comment-46 Greetings, Wendy--- I enjoyed this discussion of the Hours of the Virgin, especially the special attention given to the individual borders of the illuminations for the canonical hours and the 'hierarchy of ornament' in the <em>Belles Heures</em>. Do you know W. H. Auden's beautiful poetic sequence <em>Horae Canonicae</em>? The text is available at http://spintongues.msk.ru/auden9eng.htm Deirdre Greetings, Wendy—

I enjoyed this discussion of the Hours of the Virgin, especially the special attention given to the individual borders of the illuminations for the canonical hours and the ‘hierarchy of ornament’ in the Belles Heures. Do you know W. H. Auden’s beautiful poetic sequence Horae Canonicae? The text is available at http://spintongues.msk.ru/auden9eng.htm

Deirdre

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