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Video entriesThe King of Beasts
April 3, 2023 This exhibition focuses on a single gem. But what a gem! It is a large cameo of a lion’s head skilfully carved in semi-transparent cat’s eye in pale green to... Read more -
Video entriesLes 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 -
Video entriesExhibition 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 -
Video entriesExhibition 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 -
Video entriesExhibition 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 -
Video entriesExhibition 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 -
Video entriesExhibition 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 -
Video entriesChapter 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 -
Video entriesChapter 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 -
Video entriesWebinar: Collecting the Medieval Past: What, Why, How?
An online event presented by Friends of the ICMA Read more -
Video entriesChapter 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 -
Video entriesChapter 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 -
Video entriesChapter 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 -
Video entriesChapter 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 -
Video entriesWebinar: 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 -
Video entriesPaintings from Illuminated Manuscripts
A Selection of New Acquisitions June 21, 2021 Read more -
Video entriesVideo: 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 -
Video entriesWomen 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 -
Video entriesA 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 -
Video entriesUnderstanding 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 -
Video entries“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 -
Video entriesReflections 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 -
Video entriesVideo: 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 -
Video entriesCycles 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 -
Video entriesCycles 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 -
Video entriesThe 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 -
Video entriesThe 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 -
Video entriesGothic 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 -
Video entriesPodcast - 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 -
Video entriesVideo 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 -
Video entriesSandra 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