Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages

November 8, 1998-January 31, 1999

Overview: The exhibition presented 56 drawings from the Housebook manuscript, owned by the Prince of Waldburg-Wolfegg family. The drawings were available for display while the book was unbound for conservation and reproduction.The manuscript depicts aspects of secular medieval life such as jousting, military sieges, and astrology. The exhibition also included related prints by the Master of the Housebook and other artists from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and from the National Gallery of Art and other American collections.

The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art. Andrew Robison, Andrew W. Mellon senior curator at the National Gallery of Art, and Virginia Clayton, associate curator of old master prints at the National Gallery of Art, were curators.

Attendance: 48,539 (83 days)

Location: East Building, Ground Floor, Northwest

Catalogue: Venus and Mars: The World of the Medieval Housebook, by Christoph Graf zu Waldburg-Wolfegg. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1998.

Other venues:

Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main

September 17-November 1, 1997

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

November 11, 1997-January 19, 1998

Haus der Kunst, Munich

July 24-October 11, 1998

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

May 11-July 26, 1999

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