The Gualenghi d'Este Hours: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara

by Kurt Barstow

One of the most important Italian manuscripts in the Getty Museum, the lavishly illustrated Gualenghi d'Este Hours was created around 1649 on the occasion of the marriage of diplomat Andrea Gualengo to Orsina d'Este, a member of Ferrara's ruling family. The devotional manuscript featured brilliant figured decoration of the suffrages--short prayers to saints--and was created by Taddeo Crivelli, one of the most important manuscript illuminators of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892363703
• ISBN13: 9780892363704
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.8"