TEXTURES OF SACRED SCRIPTURE
Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300
Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.728, fol. 142r
Conference: Book Ornament and Luxury Critique, Zurich 16.09. – 17.09.2022
The research group “Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament” is organizing a two-day international conference on “Book Ornament and Luxury Critique”. The conference, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, will take place at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich from 16 to 17 September 2022. Registration is required by…
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