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Art News:
This Thursday: Media Preview of Illuminating Faith
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Please join us for a media preview of
ILLUMINATING FAITH
THE EUCHARIST IN MEDIEVAL LIFE AND ART
Thursday, May 16, 2013
10:00–11:30 a.m.
RSVP: media@themorgan.org; (212) 590-0393
Remarks by Morgan director William M. Griswold
followed by
Short curatorial presentation
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, NYC
Tea & coffee will be served
Illuminating Faith
May 17–September 2, 2013
 For medieval Christians, the Eucharist (the sacrament of Communion) was not only at the heart of the Mass—its presence and symbolism also wielded enormous influence over cultural and civic life. Illuminating Faith explores how artists of the period depicted the celebration of the sacrament and its powerful hold on society in more than sixty-five exquisitely illuminated manuscripts drawn from the Morgan’s renowned collections.
Included among the masterpieces will be the Hours of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, one of the greatest of all illuminated manuscripts; the Preparation for Mass of Pope Leo X, which remained at the Vatican until it was looted by Napoleon’s troops in 1798; a personal prayer book created for Anne de Bretagne, queen of France, and a number of superb Missals that are rarely exhibited. In addition, objects used in medieval Eucharistic rituals will be on view, including a chalice, ciborium, pax, altar card, and two monstrances that displayed Communion wafers.
Read the full press release.
Images:
Elevation of the Eucharist, from the
“Della Rovere Missal,” Rome use, in Latin
Italy, Rome, ca. 1485–90
Illuminated by the Master of the della Rovere Missals (Jacopo Ravaldi?) for Cardinal Domenico della Rovere
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; MS M.306, fols. 118v-119
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1907
Photography by Graham S. Haber
Altar Prepared for the Feast of Corpus Christi, detail from an
Antiphonary (one of the six “Lodi Choir Books”), in Latin
Italy, Milan, ca. 1470–95
Commissioned for Lodi Cathedral by Bishop Carlo Pallavicino
and illuminated by Francesco Bettini and others
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; MS M.682, fol. 19v
Purchased, before 1921
Photography: Graham S. Haber
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