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History of Art

Decorative Arts

First Treatise on Museums Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565

Meadow Mark A., Robertson Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9781606061497, Getty Publications, November 2013
188 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This is a new translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text on the collection and display of objects. "Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones", first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curios...

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Children's Books

Marguerite Makes a Book

Robertson Bruce, Hewitt Kathryn

ISBN: HB: 9780892363728, Getty Publications, March 2006
48 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 46 colour illus.

It is Paris in the 1400s. A young girl named Marguerite delights in assisting her father, Jacques, in his craft: illuminating manuscripts for the nobility of France. His current commission is a splendid book of hours for his patron, Lady Isabelle, bu...

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