An upcoming exhibition at the Museum Of Biblical Art will highlight Bible printing in Venice during the High Renaissance
February 11 thru June 12th, 2011

The Fox and the Crow, from Aesop's Fables,
illustration by Hollar Wenceslaus,  17th century, etching

The Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Library announces new acquisition of two early 16th century books

Infancyof Printing

Gutenberg to Gates

December 25th

NPR's All Things Considered focuses on the Ghent Altarpiece

 Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, The Flight into Egypt 

                                                                   

       

  Annunciation to the Shepherds  Bamberg Apocalypse   Ottonian 11th c.

                                                   The  Nativity   unknown  Ottonian, Mainz or Fulda, 1025-1050

 Bohemian master  ca. 1350.

Nativity, unknown master (ca. 1490), Slovakia, Spišské Podhradie

The Three Wise Men  mosaic detail from Sant'Apollinaire Nuovo  Ravenna, Italy  late 6th century

photo by Nina Aldin Thune

Conrad von Soest  1403  tempera on panel

  Geertgen tot Sint Jans Nativity at Night 1490  oil on oak panel

National Gallery London

Samuel Palmer Early Morning 1825

Samuel Palmer Garden in Shoreham 1820's-1830's

Samuel Palmer Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star 1830

Samuel Palmer British Museum

from the William Blake Archive   paintings illustrating the Bible, including Job and his Daughters

A new mystery thriller, The Raven -an imaginary account of Edgar Allan Poe's final days- is in the works. The film, to be directed by James Mc Teigue, is due out next fall. (from The Huffington Post)

Poe's handwriting

                                                         illustration by John Tenniel 1858

Gustave Dore

 Manet

Codex Colombino 12th century AD

Matricula de tributos 1522AD

Colombino Codex

Codices del Marquesado del Valle  de Oaxaca 16th century

Huexotzinco  Codex 1531 AD

 Colombino Codex

from artdaily.org :

Mexico initiates a new online library: Biblioteca Digital Mexicana ,which will provide access to a select group of  Mexican historical documents.


World Digital Library

A rare incunable, the Lyme Caxton Missal, is welcomed back in a long overdue homecoming at the restored National Trust's Library at Lyme Park   

(from Art Daily)

The Codex Manesse is on display at the Heidelberg University Library

through February 20,2011

The Rochefoucauld Grail to be auctioned at Sotheby's in December

The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste,a miniature from the Syriac Gospel Lectionary, ca.1220  Vatican Library

The Vatican Library will reopen on Monday, September 20th, ending a three year period of being closed for restoration.
from
msnbc

more at:
Mail Online World News

from BBC News

A 12th century missal is being returned by the British Library to the Cathedral City of Benevento, Naples. The manuscript had previously been thought by the city to have been destroyed during the second World War.

from Medievalist.net
A rare 13th century English Bible has been bought by the University of South Carolina and the Hollings Library. The book, a missal , is dominated almost exclusively by liturgical text rather than images, and was used by the clergy during the celebration of the Mass.

from Art Knowledge News

Marriage of Charles IV and Marie of Luxembourg 1455 by Jean Fouquet

An exhibition at the Getty Center, beginning on November 16, will focus on the major historical influence of French Illuminated manuscript painting from the mid - 13th through the beginning of 15th century.

Gilding the Lilly:A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library

A special exhibition of Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts will begin October 1st at Indiana University's Lilly Library. This exhibition has been guest curated by Christopher De Hamel.

Research at Oxford shows that the Garima Gospels may date from between 330 and 650 AD, making it among the world's oldest illuminated manuscripts, and the oldest Ethiopian manuscript yet found.
from
The Art Newspaper

more on
Medievalist.Net

Telegraph.co.uk

Faddan More Psalter reveals an ancient Coptic source

Manuscript dug from from an Irish bog in 2006 reveals a surprising Egyptian link. Papyrus bits found in the lining of the leather binding of an eight century Irish Psalter recovered from a Tipperary bog four years ago provides tantalizing physical evidence of a link connecting early Irish Christianity to the ancient Middle Eastern Coptic Church. (from the Irish Independent News 9/5/10)

Decameron
David Cohen's Decade of Exhibitions at the New York Studio School 2001-2010

opens Thursday,September 9th at the NYSS.
The exhibition  highlights a stellar range of contemporary artists including:

Frank Auerbach

Frances Barth

Rackstraw Downes

Mernet Larsen

Dorothea Rockburne

Interview with Dr. Mary Watt, University of Florida, part two

Interview with Dr. Mary Watt, part one

interview with Andrew Pettegree from the Boston Globe

The restoration of a Renaissance masterpiece, a 15th c. copy of the Mishneh Torah , completed at Israel's National  Museum

The Book in the Renaissance
review

Unprecedented auction of rare illuminated manuscripts and incunabula to be held at Christie's
(from Americana Exchange) Boccaccio's On Famous Women , printed in Latin by Johann Zainer at Ulm in 1473

and

a copy of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili , once owned by Jean Grolier

will be offered at the event in July.

link to catalogue

The auction will include the 15th century Cauchon Hours

(from Art Knowledge News)

Getty Museum sued for stolen Illuminated manuscripts

Christie's to auction magnificent collection of illuminated manuscripts including the Hours of Elizabeth de Bohun, grandmother of Henry the V

a heavenly blue

Louvre ceiling, Cy Twombly 2010

ceiling at Scrovengi chapel, Giotto 1305

lapis lazuli

Cy Twombly states that the startling blue color in his Louvre ceiling was inspired by Giotto and that Early Renaissance painter's use of lapis lazuli


from
American Scholar : American artist Cy Twombly paints a ceiling at the Louvre

Eva Hesse Studiowork 1968


Eva Hesse exhibition at Hauser & Wirth from Art Knowledge news

Taklimakan desert Nasa photo 2001

Lost in the Taklimakan: Mysterious forms beckon from a forgotten burial ground
from the New York Times