Description: Further DetailsTitle: Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta - A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris JoefnagelCondition: NewEAN: 9781606066584ISBN: 9781606066584Publisher: Getty PublicationsFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/18/2020Item Height: 196mmItem Length: 138mmItem Width: 42mmItem Weight: 826gAuthor: Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-wilbergLanguage: EnglishDescription: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Getty Publications - (Yale)Genre: Arts & PhotographyRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta - A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic M
Title: Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta - A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic M
EAN: 9781606066584
ISBN: 9781606066584
Release Date: 09/18/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Getty Publications - (Yale)
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
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 1.7 in
Topic: Handwriting, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, Techniques / Calligraphy, General, History / Medieval, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, Decorative Arts, History / Renaissance
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Design, Art, Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Weight: 29.4 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Hardcover