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Sharon Liberman Mintz & Adam S. Cohen
In conjunction with Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500, Sharon Liberman Mintz, Curator of Jewish Art at The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, and Adam S. Cohen, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto, will consider the production, use, decoration, and meaning of Hebrew illuminated books made in Central Europe between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Numerous examples drawn from American collections, many hardly known even to specialists, provide a fresh lens for viewing the works in the Morgan exhibition by demonstrating how these Hebrew works were related to broader European trends even as they were particular to the Jewish medieval experience. The lecture will also briefly explore the circumstances that brought these books into their current collections and what this reveals about patterns in American cultural patronage.
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The exhibition Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 800–1500 will be open from 4:30–5:30 pm for program attendees.
The Esslingen Mahzor, Germany, 1290
Courtesy of the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary (MS 9344)