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    Les Enluminures at the Winter Show New York 2022

    In New York the Winter Show is in full swing. Open through April 10, we are exhibiting a fine selection of illuminated manuscripts, leaves and historic jewelry at 660 Madison... Read more
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    Exhibition Spotlight: Episode 5, The Monsters of Medieval Art

    Monsters are everywhere in the margins of Medieval Art, but can also take center stage. In the last episode of our mini-series accompanying our exhibition ‘The Margins of Medieval Art:... Read more
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    Exhibition Spotlight: Episode 4, The Arenberg Psalter-Breviary: Life on the edge

    March 22, 2022 In the latest episode of the mini-series accompanying our exhibition ‘The Margins of Medieval Art: Questioning the Center’, Sandra Hindman considers life on the edge in the Arenberg Psalter-Breviary. The... Read more
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    Exhibition Spotlight: Episode 3, Deciphering the Margins of an enchanting Ghent-Bruges Book of Hours

    March 17, 2022 In this episode, Sandra Hindman explores the wonderful and whimsical delights that pack the margins of this lavishly illuminated Book of Hours. Most of the marginalia here appear intended to... Read more
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    Exhibition Spotlight: Episode 2, A colorful and impressively large leaf from an Italian Choir Book

    March 15, 2022 In the second episode of our mini-series accompanying our exhibition ‘The Margins of Medieval Art: Questioning the Center’, Sandra Hindman considers this colorful leaf. Fantastic human hybrid figures inhabit the... Read more
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    Exhibition Spotlight: Episode 1, Peacocks and the margins of Medieval manuscripts

    March 10, 2022 Have you ever wondered what peacocks are doing in the margins of Medieval manuscripts? In the first episode of our mini-series accompanying our exhibition ‘The Margins of Medieval Art: Questioning... Read more
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    Chapter 6: The Future of Collecting

    November 16, 2021 Is there still anything available out there – “in the wild” as a colleague of mine says? The simple answer is yes. Where? Anything anywhere anytime. Expertise – Learn as... Read more
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    Chapter 5: Contactless Les Enluminures

    November 16, 2021 This is a time of big change. Moving forward we are determined to find ways that meaningful human interactions can happen online. Les Enluminures has always had a big digital... Read more
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    Webinar: Collecting the Medieval Past: What, Why, How?

    An online event presented by Friends of the ICMA Read more
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    Chapter 4: An innovative Approach to Medieval Art

    November 2, 2021 I don’t just buy and sell art. For me, it’s all about the project. We have published more than 50 catalogues in 30 years. Each catalogue goes with an exhibition... Read more
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    Chapter 3: Chicago, my kind of Town

    November 2, 2021 My roots run deep in Chicago. My father was on the Manhattan project in Hyde Park at the University of Chicago. from a home office, I moved my business to... Read more
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    Chapter 2: The Lady of the Rings

    At my first TEFAF I set my heart on a medieval ring. At the end of the show, I rushed over to buy it. 28 years later I wear it... Read more
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    Chapter 1: An American in Paris

    I opened my gallery 30 years ago in 1991 in the Louvre des Antiquaires in Paris. Les Enluminures, that’s what I called my business. I wanted a name that could... Read more
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    Webinar: The Burke Collection of Italian Manuscript Paintings – in Context

    October 19, 2021 This international webinar celebrates the publication of the book “The Burke Collection of Italian Manuscript Paintings” (London, Paul Holberton, 2020) with a scholarly gathering presenting papers on subjects inspired by... Read more
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    Paintings from Illuminated Manuscripts

    A Selection of New Acquisitions June 21, 2021 Read more
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    Video: The Roman de la Rose

    June 1, 2021 The Roman de la Rose (or the Romance of the Rose) is perhaps the greatest love story in French literature. It is a poem written in Old French around 1230... Read more
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    Women and Jewellery: a contemporary Perspective

    May 26, 2021 In celebration of the reopening of British museums, jewelry curator and Liveryman, Amanda Game, hones in on the importance of specialist jewelry curators within the field of museums. In this... Read more
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    A rare 17th-century cluster ring found its way into the collection of DIVA

    April 13, 2021 DIVA museum adds a mysterious 17th century cluster ring to its collection. Discovered at Les Enluminures, it was acquired by the King Baudouin Foundation (Christian Bauwens Fund) on the opening... Read more
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    Understanding Books of Hours

    March 24, 2021 Les Enluminures invites you to enjoy “Understanding Books of Hours” to gain a better understanding of these illuminated prayerbooks. In this thirty-minute video, Sandra Hindman introduces and delves into these... Read more
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    Podcast - Episode 14: Richard Davies of AbeBooks interviews Sandra Hindman: Books of Hours Explained

    March 9, 2021 This week Richard Davies of AbeBooks, the innovative global online bookseller, interviews Sandra Hindman for the ‘Behind the Bookshelves’ podcast. In this second conversation, they set out to explore Books... Read more
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    The Althorp Leopard

    October 28, 2020 Described as unique in the world in the eighteenth century, this Renaissance cameo is distinguished by its exceptional quality. Carved out of a moss agate, it depicts a life-like spotted... Read more
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    “Go forth and learn”: The Artist Joel ben Simeon and a Newly Discovered Hebrew Manuscript

    October 19, 2020 The discovery of a new manuscript with more than 300 drawings by the hand of Joel ben Simeon, a fifteenth-century Jewish scribe and illuminator, prompts a reassessment of his career... Read more
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    Reflections of Intimacy: Experiencing Medieval Objects

    June 25, 2020 Sandra Hindman presents some of the highlights in a short talk from our gallery in Chicago. Read more
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    Video: Meet the Experts at TEFAF Maastricht 2020

    April 7, 2020 Sandra Hindman, President and Founder of Les Enluminures, presents the beautiful book of hours of Charles VII. The Petites Heures of Charles VIII, exhibited at the 2020 edition of TEFAF... Read more
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    Video: Les Enluminures at TEFAF Maastricht 2020

    March 6, 2020 Have a quick glimpse of some of the outstanding works of art that Les Enluminures exhibited at this year's edition of TEFAF Maastricht. Sandra Hindman and Keegan Goepfert accompany you... Read more
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    How to buy a Book of Hours

    February 17, 2020 Sandra Hindman and Keegan Goepfert confront a range of questions which one should consider when buying a Book of Hours; discussing how the artist, the number of illuminations, its provenance,... Read more
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    Treasures of the Lost Art

    March 6, 2013 Sandra Hindman (Owner of Les Enluminures) and Keegan Goepfert (Gallery Director & Associate) converse about the fascination, from the Middle Ages to today, with medieval miniatures, and how, remarkably, these... Read more
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    Cycles of Life: Sandra Hindman Interviews Benjamin Zucker

    September 5, 2014 Benjamin Zucker, the great novelist and gem specialist, reveals to Sandra Hindman what it is that fascinates him about rings and gemstones, how they represent 'portals of discovery' and how... Read more
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    The De Clerq Roman Diamond: "The Story of the Diamond Starts Here”

    September 5, 2014 Keegan Goepfert, Vice-President at Les Enluminures, discusses the history and significance behind one of the highlights of the Cycles of Life exhibition: The De Clerq Roman Diamond Ring and how... Read more
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    Cycles of Life: Highlights from the Benjamin Zucker Collection

    September 15, 2014 Sandra Hindman introduces the upcoming rings exhibition 'Cycles of Life' along with some of its extraordinary rings. Read more
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    The Liesborn Gospel at TEFAF

    March 7, 2015 Dr. Sandra Hindman presents the famous tenth-century Liesborn Gospel Book, an Ottonian Gospel Book presented by an abbess to her convent of nuns. The last time that this manuscript appeared... Read more
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    The Idda Collection: Romanesque Biblical Manuscripts c.1000 to 1240

    April 15, 2015 Dr. Sandra Hindman and Dr. Christopher de Hamel introduce the extraordinary collection of manuscripts in our Spring 2015 exhibition “The Idda Collection: Romanesque Biblical Manuscripts c. 1000 to 1240,” telling... Read more
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    Gothic Coffers Traveling Revisited

    November 11, 2015 For the launch of the Les Enluminures exhibition 'Gothic Traveling Coffers Revisited' Sandra Hindman discusses these rare medieval coffers and their remarkable French prints. The emergence of a Northern Renaissance... Read more
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    Podcast - Walking Tour of the Medieval Book Trade with Sandra Hindman & Christopher De Hamel

    April 7, 2017 On April 8, 2017, Christopher de Hamel and Sandra Hindman led a 'Walking Tour of the Medieval Book Trade in Paris'. Setting off from Notre-Dame, the small group of participants... Read more
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    Video extracts from the "Walking Tour of the Medieval Book Trade"

    April 8, 2017 On April 8, 2017, Christopher de Hamel and Sandra Hindman led a 'Walking Tour of the Medieval Book Trade in Paris'. Setting off from Notre-Dame, the small group of participants... Read more
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    Sandra Hindman presents "The Medieval World at our Fingertips"

    February 1, 2018 Step back in time and into the world of illuminated manuscripts with Sandra Hindman who will discuss medieval illuminations from her personal collection, a collection so dazzling that it is... Read more
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    From New York to Warendorf: The Liesborn Gospels Returns Home!

    August 1, 2017 “It is always a source of very great satisfaction when a manuscript finally returns to its rightful and ancestral home”. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Dr. Olaf Gericke, our... Read more
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