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Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta - A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Joefnagel (Hardcover, 2nd ed.) Loot Price: R1,636
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Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta - A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris...

Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta - A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Joefnagel (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)

Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg

Series: Getty Publications - (Yale)

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Now back in print, "the ultimate book-lover's gift book" (Los Angeles Times) In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy) as a demonstration of his own preeminence among scribes. Some thirty years later, Ferdinand's grandson, the Emperor Rudolf II, commissioned Europe's last great manuscript illuminator, Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600), to embellish the work. The resulting book is at once a treasury of extraordinary beauty and a landmark in the cultural debate between word and image. Bocskay assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historical scripts for a work that summarized all that had been learned about writing to date-a testament to the universal power of the written word. Hoefnagel, desiring to prove the superiority of his art over Bocskay's words, employed every resource of illusionism, color, and form to devise all manner of brilliant grotesques, from flowers, fruit, insects, and animals to monsters and masks.

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Imprint: Getty Publications
Country of origin: United States
Series: Getty Publications - (Yale)
Release date: September 2020
Authors: Lee Hendrix • Thea Vignau-Wilberg
Dimensions: 196 x 138 x 42mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 424
Edition: 2nd ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-60606-658-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Typography
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Decorative arts & crafts > General
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LSN: 1-60606-658-7
Barcode: 9781606066584

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