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Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300–1500
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Author
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Barbara Drake Boehm.
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Publisher
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Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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11
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8.5
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ISBN
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9780300141429
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Pages/Publication Date
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64/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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21925
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Representing the work of Gothic and Renaissance masters both celebrated and anonymous, this book describes and illustrates the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of nearly 40 illuminations from Italian choral manuscripts. These precious paintings in miniature, characterized by compelling narrative, brilliant color, and rich gilding, bear witness to exceptional aesthetic accomplishment, while the choir books they illuminate reveal much about the development of chant, whose unexpected transcendent tonalities have enriched music ever since.
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