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The exhibition Preyers in Code: Books of Hours from Renaissance France was held at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, from April 25 to June 17, 2009.

During the late Middle Ages, Books of Hours became common tools for private devotion as well as important status symbols. Carried by fashionable ladies and collected by wealthy bibliophiles, Books of Hours differed greatly in style and ornament but were fairly predictable in terms of the imagery they contained. The manuscripts in this exhibition were exceptions in that they presented unusual images that challenged our understanding of the relationship between the words of the prayers and their illustrations. Along withcoded prayers, the exhibition also explored patronage at the court of King Francis I (1494-1547), a time when the controversies over humanism, reformation, and orthodoxy shaped the intellectual life of discerning patrons. A small catalogue has accompanied the exhibition. A symposium was held in conjunction with this exhibition (see the post Book Illustration in Renaissance France).

For further information visit the site of The Walters Art Museum.

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The SYMPOSIUM, Book Illustration in Renaissance France was held at The Walters Art Museum (600 North Cahrles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201-5185) on Saturday May 23, 2009, 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Organized by the Walters Art Museum in collaboration with the Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe, with the generous support of an anonymous donor, and in conjunction with the loan exhibition Prayers in Code: Books of Hours from Renaissance France, April 25–July 17, 2009, at the Walters Art Museum (see the post Preyers in Code).

Papers addressed the vibrant exchange between artists, printers and patrons in France in the first half of the 16th century and explored book production during a time when controversies over humanism, reformation, and orthodoxy shaped the intellectual life of discerning patrons.

Program: MARTINA BAGNOLI, (The Walters Art Museum), Introduction; VIRGINIA REINBURG (Boston College), A Book for Prayer? Books of Hours in the Era of Manuscript and Print; REBECCA ZORACH (University of Chicago), Double Vision: Memory Places, Devices, and Devotion; ROBERT SCHINDLER (Freie Universität Berlin), Enea Silvio Piccolomini in France and Humanism in Royal Circles before François I; Roundtable discussion led by KIM BUTLER (American University); TOM CONLEY (Harvard University), Geoffroy Tory and the “Pictogrammar” of the Champ fleury; DANIEL RUSSELL (University of Pittsburgh), Emblems and Hours: Some Thoughts on Early Modern Illustration; and Final Roundtable discussion led by STEPHEN CAMPBELL (Johns Hopkins University).

For further detalis contact Kathryn Gerry or view the site of The Walters Art Museum.

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The exhibition The Romance of the Rose was held at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, from January 24, 2009 - April 19, 2009.

The Romance of the Rose, a 13th-century poem written in Old French, was among the most popular and influential literary texts of its day. The allegorical treatment of such an enduring subject as “Love” and the exploration of the notion of “Quest” made this focus show widely accessible to diverse audiences. The exhibition featured nine different manuscripts of the Romance of the Rose drawn from collections in North America, along with a selection of medieval ivories from the Walters collection. The exhibition was a collaborative project between the Walters, Johns Hopkins University, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

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The exhibition Maps: Finding Our Place in the World was held at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, from March 16 - June 08, 2008. In conjunction with the Walters’ maps show, Baltimore hosted a Festival of Maps.

Organized by The Field Museum and the Newberry Library, Chicago, this special exhibition was the most ambitious American exhibition devoted to maps since the great show mounted in Baltimore more than 50 years ago. Visitors came face-to-face with some of the world’s greatest cartographic treasures, not only maps made by great cartographers of the Middle Ages and the age of exploration, but also seldom-seen and exciting artifacts from around the world that broadened visitors’ knowledge of the almost universal human activity of map-making. The exhibition featured a variety of unique, rare, and often beautiful artifacts, including maps on cuneiform tablets, medieval maps, manuscript maps of explorers, globes, maps of areas all around the earth, and maps of nowhere: utopias and imaginary maps. Highlights included three maps by Leonardo da Vinci, J. R. R. Tolkien’s map of Minas Tirith, and Thomas Jefferson’s map of the proposed contours of the states of the Union. The exhibition was presented by Navteq and supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

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