Art History

MARBL has just acquired a personalized Jesuit prayer book in manuscript incorporating devotional prints: [JESUIT MANUSCRIPT PRAYER BOOK]. Libellus Piarum Precum... [Trier?], colophon: 1575.
 
“What's interesting about this 'Trier' manuscript”, comments Professor Walter Melion, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History,  “is that the illustrations--woodblocks and engravings--are printed on the same paper as the manuscript, which indicates that they were produced for insertion into this codex.
 
The prayer book includes 5 full-page hand-colored woodcuts, 11 engravings with touches of hand-color, and numerous hand-drawn colored Jesuit monograms.

Gilbert & George are famous British visual and conceptual artists who have been working together since they met in art school in 1967. The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library contains two of their "postal sculptures," "The Limericks" from 1971 and "Pink Elephants" from 1973. As Gilbert & George conceived it a postal sculpture was a series of cards with text and image sent out to friends, galleries and collectors.

We recently acquired a beautiful new piece for our growing art history collection relating to Rome. It's Francesco Borromini's Opera del Caval. Francesco Boromino: cavata da suoi originale cio è la chiesa e fabrica della Sapienza di Roma con le vedute in prospettiva & con lo studio della proporz[io]ni geometriche, piante, alzate, profili e spaccati, published in Rome in 1720.