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The Luminous Image: Painted Glass Roundels in the Lowlands, 1480-1560
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 23-Aug. 20, 1995.
By Timothy B. Husband ; with an introductory essay by Ilja M. Veldman ; and contributions by Ellen Konowitz and Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman.
By Timothy B. Husband ; with an introductory essay by Ilja M. Veldman ; and contributions by Ellen Konowitz and Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman.
234 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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Timothy B. Husband
22 booksTimothy B. Husband is a Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has worked in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters for over forty years.
He studied at the Fogg Museum as an undergraduate at Harvard, received his MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, and completed his doctoral coursework at Columbia. Focusing on the later Middle Ages, mostly in the German-speaking world, his interests include sculpture, tapestry, goldsmiths' work, ceramics, manuscripts, and stained glass in both the secular and ecclesiastical realms.
He has organized many exhibitions including The Treasury of Basel Cathedral (2001), The Medieval Housebook and the Art of Illumination (1999), The Luminous Image: Painted Glass Roundels in the Lowlands, 1480–1560 (1995), and The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism (1980). His most recent publication is The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry.
He studied at the Fogg Museum as an undergraduate at Harvard, received his MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, and completed his doctoral coursework at Columbia. Focusing on the later Middle Ages, mostly in the German-speaking world, his interests include sculpture, tapestry, goldsmiths' work, ceramics, manuscripts, and stained glass in both the secular and ecclesiastical realms.
He has organized many exhibitions including The Treasury of Basel Cathedral (2001), The Medieval Housebook and the Art of Illumination (1999), The Luminous Image: Painted Glass Roundels in the Lowlands, 1480–1560 (1995), and The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism (1980). His most recent publication is The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry.
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