Word: meiss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paintings have been hung so that the varied architecture of the Fogg's galleries shows each group to its best advantage. The medieval beams set in the ceiling of the large room to the right of the courtyard inspired art historian Millard Meiss, during his brief term as director of the Fogg, to arrange the entire space in a medieval mode, mounting Romanesque capitals on low semi-detached pedestals projecting from the wall. The Fogg's fourteenth century Italian paintings were arranged in the areas between columns and framed by medieval chests set below. Undaunted by tradition, Slive and Freedberg...
...their own home if no room is available at the hotel. Despite the construction noise, the same hospitality is evident at Habitation Leclerc, a new $1.5 million resort complex being built on a Port-au-Prince hillside by Olivier Coquelin, owner of Manhattan's Hippopotamus discotheque. Hans von Meiss-Teuffen, manager of the resort, will often meet guests at the airport, take them on tours of the capital and order up special meals from his kitchen...
...VISCONTI HOURS Edited by Millard Meiss and Edith Kirsch. 262 pages. Braziller. $35. This facsimile reproduction of the Visconti Book of Hours was originally commissioned sometime before 1385 by the puissant Count, later Duke of Milan, Giangaleazzo Visconti. The first part ended with Giangaleazzo's death in 1402. Some ten years later the book was resumed when his son became duke. For one reason or another, the two volumes were not united until 1969, when the second part was donated to Italy's National Library in Florence. In beauty and inventiveness The Visconti Hours fully matches the more...
...French king, Jean, the Duke of Berry. Jean de Berry was born in 1340, and his patronage of artists changed the whole pattern of late medieval painting. "No patron of his time, and few before or after him, had a comparable effect on the arts," wrote Art Historian Millard Meiss. "Between 1380 and 1400 every great cycle of miniatures in France was commissioned by the Duke of Berry." A superb exhibition of 14th and 15th century French miniature painting, organized by Professor Meiss, is now on view at Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library. Inevitably, its central character...
Riots. Extortion had paid for it all. "There may well have been contemporaries of Jean de Berry," wrote Millard Meiss, "who maintained that he cared more for animals and for art than for men." They may well have been right. Jean de Berry once gave a hound a life pension, but he taxed his subjects so fiercely that they rioted. Worse, from the aspect of practical politics, he chose the wrong faction in the struggles for the French throne, so his house in Paris was sacked by a furious mob in 1411, and one of his châteaux, stuffed...