Trésors enluminés de Suisse. Manuscrits sacrés et profanes. Occident veiled in a slight melancholy

veiled in a slight melancholy

Nils Palmgren: Gräfin Wilhelmina von Hallwyl

afin de délivrer un message moralisateur ou de créer une identité commune

and as much historians of the plastic arts as those of aesthetics

Ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre offers a new essay to accompany each set of photographs

Trésors enluminés de Suisse. Manuscrits sacrés et profanes. Occident veiled in a slight melancholyFor the first time in Switzerland, two simultaneous exhibitions showcase a vast selection of illuminated manuscripts from more than fifteen Swiss libraries. Offering a unique panorama of an exceptional heritage, one at the Stiftsbibliothek in St. Gallen presents the sacred world of liturgical works and devotional books, and the other at the Martin Bodmer Foundation in Cologny presents the secular world, with literary, philosophical, and scientific