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June 3, 2008
Technology on the March - Looking at Art Online
Over at Cronaca I read about an exhibition at the Morgan Library of a new acquisition of theirs, an early 16th century French prayer book (the Prayer Book of Claude de France). The manuscript is too late to be of much real interest to me (we all have our preferences, and a strong one of mine is for earlier art), but the online viewer he linked to is amazing! Just shows what money and thought can do - this is the best online viewer for books that I've used lately!
Go look!
By the way - total coolness! The donor's bookplate is still in the book; after all, it's a Picasso! The Morgan wouldn't go peeling that out, even for conservation purposes. Just look at the juxtaposition of interiors and exteriors - Picasso's sketchy little window looking onto a landscape (with the owner's initials worked into something that recalls a wrought iron balustrade) and the Claude Master's tricky little framed view of John on Patmos toying with space and illusionism. Fun!
Now having looked at that, go look at some of their other online exhibitions.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 3, 2008 7:57 AM