Peachy at The Met: The Winchester Bible: A Masterpiece of Medieval Art #WinchesterBible Until March 9, 2015 Our Coverage Sponsored by Stribling and Associates
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Exhibition location: Medieval Europe Gallery, Gallery 304
This is the first time this work has been shown in the United States.
One of the most remarkable exhibits at The Met right now is The Winchester Bible, a treasure to be found just steps beyond the main entrance on the first floor until March 9, so this should be a must for your weekend.
The historical, religious and cultural impact of this is evidenced by its age and enduring interest, not to mention the beauty and one-of-a-kind workmanship to be found here. The still-vivid colors are just brilliant, and the calligraphic details are extraordinary. Every line in an age centuries before computers is perfectly straight.
The alternating colors -red, orange, yellow, green and blue- and hidden animals within the vines of the letters will capture your imagination and bring you back to a time of what we imagine Ken Follett's Pilars of the Earth to be (and check out that older tv series with new Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne if you have yet to see it.)
A terrific opportunity to brush up on your Latin if you learned that we guess as well...
The exhibition will be featured on the website of the Metropolitan Museum, as well as on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter via the hashtag #WinchesterBible. Through a series of regular blog posts, specialists will address aspects of the history and meaning of the Winchester Bible.
A related book, The Winchester Bible: The First 850 Years, written by Canon Chancellor Roland Reim and published by the Winchester Cathedral Trust, will be available at the Museum’s book shops.
Credits
The exhibition is organized by Charles T. Little, Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. Exhibition design is by Daniel Kershaw, Exhibition Design Manager; graphics are by Constance Norkin, Graphic Design Manager; lighting is by Clint Ross Coller and Richard Lichte, Lighting Design Managers, all of the Museum’s Design Department.
Masterfully illuminated pages from two volumes of the magnificent, lavishly ornamented Winchester Bible—a pivotal landmark of medieval art from around 1200—will be shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for three months, beginning December 9, in the exhibitionThe Winchester Bible: A Masterpiece of Medieval Art. Probably commissioned around 1155–60 by the wealthy and powerful Henry of Blois (about 1098–1171), who was the Bishop of Winchester (and grandson of William the Conqueror and King Stephen’s brother), the manuscript is the Cathedral’s single greatest surviving treasure. Renovations at Winchester Cathedral provide the opportunity for these pages, which feature the Old Testament, to travel to New York. This presentation marks the first time the work will be shown in the United States. At the Metropolitan Museum, the pages of one bound volume will be turned once each month; three unbound bi-folios with lavish initials from the other volume—which is currently undergoing conservation—will be on view simultaneously for the duration of the exhibition.
The exhibition is made possible by the Michel David-Weill Fund.
The Winchester Bible has been lent by The Chapter of Winchester Cathedral.
A highlight of the presentation will be the display of an elaborately illustrated double-sided frontispiece—long separated from the Bible and now in the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York—that features scenes from the life of David and Samuel. Works of art from the Metropolitan Museum’s own collection—medieval sculpture, goldsmith work, ivories, stained glass, and other examples of manuscript illumination—will provide a larger context for the two volumes.
The Winchester Bible consists of four bound volumes whose pages measure approximately 23 inches high by 15 inches wide (58 by 39 centimeters). The text of 468 folios was written over a period of 30 years by a single scribe with at least six different gifted painters applying expensive pigments, including lapis lazuli and gold, to calf-skin parchment. Their ambitious work was never completed.
