MiataDrivers - An Abecedarium: Illuminated Alphabets from the Court of Emperor Rudolf II (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)
Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg
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An Abecedarium: Illuminated Alphabets Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg epub An Abecedarium: Illuminated Alphabets Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg pdf download An Abecedarium: Illuminated Alphabets Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg pdf file An Abecedarium: Illuminated Alphabets Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg audiobook An Abecedarium: Illuminated Alphabets Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg book review An Abecedarium: Illuminated Alphabets Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg summary | #1301770 in Books | J. Paul Getty Museum | 1997-07-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.50 x.50 x5.50l,.43 | File type: PDF | 64 pages | ||15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Art in this book not as gorgeous as in the other two.|By Pio|There are 3 in this set of matching books. The other two are superb in their art choices. This one is also very pleasing. It concentrates on calligraphy letters just as is shown on the front cover. The book contains similar prints but for the other letters of the alphabet in capitals and small case. That is all|.com |Taken from a 16th-century manuscript now housed in the Getty Museum, the intricate illustrations in this tiny volume are characteristic of Renaissance art: each letter is surrounded by religious and political imagery, as well as fanciful creatures and
Included in the magnificent pages of the Mira calligraphiae monumenta are two alphabets. Executed by an unknown hand, the first consists of Roman capital letters; the other is Gothic lower-case letters. As with the calligraphy of Bocskay described above, these alphabets were embellished by Joris Hoefnagel, a painter at the court of Rudolf II. In embellishing the alphabets, Hoefnagel employed symbols and heraldic objects--masks, animals, plants, obelisks--to conv...
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