The 1117 earthquake in northern Italy hit what was possibly the most densely populated area in Europe at the time. Professors enjoyed high social status and were buried in impressive stone tombs carved with classroom scenes. Earthquakes were a cause of devastation in medieval Europe. The university initially specialized in law, and many law books were illuminated in Bologna with brightly colored narratives. Direct massive battles featuring up to 10,000 bloodthirsty troops on epic 3D battlefields, while presiding over some of the greatest Medieval nations of the Western and Middle Eastern world.
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Manuscripts circulated in a thriving market of scribes, illuminators, booksellers, and customers operating mostly outside traditional monastic scriptoria. Take command of your army and expand your reign in Total War: MEDIEVAL II - the fourth instalment of the award-winning Total War series of strategy games. The city became the preeminent center of manuscript production south of the Alps, and it helped bring about a revolution in the medieval book trade. Home to the oldest university in Europe, Bologna fostered a unique artistic culture with its large population of sophisticated readers. The exhibition explores how medieval Bologna, with its porticoed streets, towers, communal buildings, main piazza, and mendicant churches, became a center for higher learning at the end of the Middle Ages. Loans are also being sought from the Museo Civico Medievale in Bologna. Paul Getty Museum, the Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the New York Public Library, and Princeton University Library. The works are drawn primarily from American libraries, museums, and private collections, including the J. On view will be many illuminated law textbooks, which are fascinating for their distinctive page layouts and iconography as well as their notable size and heft. The nearly 70 objects in the exhibition span from 1230 to 1400, from the first great flowering of manuscript illumination in Bologna to the beginnings of the construction and decoration of the ambitious Basilica of San Petronio in the city’s Piazza Maggiore.
Conceived and organized by Frist Art Museum senior curator Trinita Kennedy, the exhibition of illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculptures will be on view from Novemthrough January 30, 2022.
In Nashville, the Frist Art Museum presents Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City, the first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus on medieval art made in the prosperous northern Italian city of Bologna.
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