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Dr. Elizabeth Morrison Senior Curator of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, USA

Information

Member of CODART since 2012

Areas of specialization

Late 15th and early 16th century Flemish illumination.

Exhibitions curated since 1999

Selected publications

“‘None touches it’: The Library of Anthony of Burgundy,” in Collectors, Commissioners, Curators: Studies in Medieval Art Inspired by Stephen Fliegel, ed. Elina Gertsman. De Gruyter/Medieval Institute Press, 2023: 81-106.

“Codicological Puzzles and Artistic Interchange in Flanders: The Example of La Flora,”
in New Perspectives on Flemish Illumination, eds. L. Watteeuw, J. van de Stock, B. Bousmanne, D. Vanwijnsberghe. Series Title: Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 21, Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (Leuven, Peeters Publishers, 2018): 173-191.

A Knight for the Ages: Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Trust Publications, 2018. Editor and essay author.

“Collaborative Processes in Late Southern Netherlandish Manuscript Illumination,” in Southern Netherlandish Manuscripts in Dutch Collections, eds. Anne Margreet As-Vivjers and Anne Korteweg. Brepols, 2018: 214-217.

The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Trust Publications, 2015. Co-authored with Zrinka Stahuljak.

“Music Meant to Impress: Flemish Artists, European Politics, and Jena, Thüringer
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Ms. 4,” Journal of the Alamire Foundation 6:2 (2014): 167-184.

“James and Margaret, Joseph and Mary: Historical Context and the Hours of James IV,” in The Social Life of Illumination, eds. Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, and Kathryn Smith. (Turnhout, Belgium, Brepols Publishers: 2013).

Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context: Recent Research. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Trust Publications. Co-editor and contributed the essay, “Iconographic Originality in the Oeuvre of the Master of the David Scenes.”

Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Trust Publications. Contributed 25 entries.