Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts, 13th – 18th Centuries

Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts, 13th – 18th Centuries

January 10th, 2025 - May 25th, 2025Monday - Saturday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sunday: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Mobile

The History Museum of Mobile is excited to announce the next major exhibition, Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts, 13th – 18th Centuries, opening January 10, 2025. This engaging exhibition includes more than thirty-five works—some with elaborate gold leaf decoration and intricate ornament— from medieval Bibles, Prayer Books, Psalters, Books of Hours, Choir Books, Missals, Breviaries, and Lectionaries drawn from the collection of the Reading Public Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania, who organized the exhibition. Examples of the materials—parchment, vellum, gold leaf, and minerals which were ground into pigments—used by artists before the age of printed books to create these extraordinary pages are also featured in the exhibit. The exhibition opens on January 10, 2025 and will be on view through May 25, 2025, sponsored locally by the Hearin-Chandler Foundation and WKRG TV-5.

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    The History Museum of Mobile is located on Royal Street directly across from Mardi Gras Park.

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    Kate Shepard House, The

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    Mary Elizabeth and Charles Bernard Rodning Gallery of Art--University of South Alabama Library

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