Description: Now back in print, "the ultimate booklover'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. Unavailable for nearly a decade, this gorgeous volume features over 180 color illustrations, as well as scholarly commentary and biographies of both artists, to inspire scholars, bibliophiles, graphic designers, typographers, and calligraphers.
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EAN: 9781606066584
UPC: 9781606066584
ISBN: 9781606066584
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Book Title: Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta : A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel
Number of Pages: 424 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Getty Publications
Item Height: 1.7 in
Topic: Handwriting, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, Techniques / Calligraphy, General, History / Medieval, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, History / Renaissance, Decorative Arts
Publication Year: 2020
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Design, Art, Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Weight: 29.4 Oz
Author: Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg
Item Length: 7.7 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Hardcover
