The Nationalmuseum is well known for its international collection of paintings and portrait miniatures, but it also owns a far lesser known but equally important collection of illuminated manuscripts.
This lecture will focus on some of the most important manuscripts in the collection and explain the current project at the Nationalmuseum to conserve, digitize and catalogue the collection.
These manuscripts, the oldest of which is around a thousand years old, showcase various art styles from Romanesque to Gothic and through to Early Renaissance. The collection also includes Byzantine Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic manuscripts, as well as those written in Latin.
Beginning at the end of the nineteenth century and built up over a hundred years, the collection contains many important items, some of which are internationally known. Represented in the collection are works from such noted artists as Attavante degli Attavanti, Simon Bening, and Jean Bourdichon. This lecture will focus on some of the most important manuscripts in the collection and explain the current project at the Nationalmuseum to conserve, digitize and catalogue the collection.
Dr. Christian Etheridge is currently researcher at the Illuminated Manuscripts project at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. He has written extensively on medieval art, science, religion and intellectual networks. His recent monograph ‘St Francis and St Dominic at the Feet of St Peter and St Paul: Danish Mendicant Sponsorship of the Fourteenth Century Wall Murals in Birkerød Church’ was published in the Peregrinations Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture.
