The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II

The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the Mira colligrophioe monumenta,...
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Author: Lee Hendrix
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Language: English
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The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II by Hendrix, Lee

The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II

$39.50

The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II

$39.50
Author: Lee Hendrix
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the Mira colligrophioe monumenta, a flamboyant demonstration of two arts-calligraphy and miniature painting. The project began when Rudolf's predecessor commissioned the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay to create a model book of calligraphy. A preeminent scribe, Bocskay assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historic scripts. Many were intended not for practical use but for virtuosic display. Years later, at Rudolf's behest, court artist Joris Hoefnagel filled the spaces on each manuscript page with images of fruit, flowers, insects, and other natural minutiae. The combination of word and images is rare and, on its tiny scale, constitutes one of the marvels of the Central European Renaissance. The manuscript is now in the collections of the Getty Museum. Forty-eight of its pages are reproduced in this book, containing samples of classic italic hands; historical, invented, and exhibition hands; Rotunda, a classicizing humanist script based on Carolingian miniscule; classically based scripts; and Gothic blackletter and chancery.

Author: Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/05/2003
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.48h x 5.24w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780892366224

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