Exhibition of the year: 'illuminating the Renaissance: the Triumph of Flemish manuscript painting in Europe' at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Royal Academy, London.

From: Apollo | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: de Hamel, Christopher | Copyright information

Seen by 142,000 people in Los Angeles and 80,235 in London, it was perhaps the most unlikely blockbuster imaginable: an array of illuminated manuscripts from late-medieval Flanders. Yet it caught the popular imagination for very good reasons.

For three months what must have been the largest reproduction of an illuminated manuscript ever made was hung several storeys high down the front of the Royal Academy. Taken from the Book of Hours of Mary of Burgundy in the Osterrei...

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