A Handbook of the Art of Illumination as Practised During the Middle Ages. with a Description of the Metals, Pigments, and Processes Employed by the Artists at Different Periods
A Handbook of the Art of Illumination as Practised During the Middle Ages. with a Description of the Metals, Pigments, and Processes Employed by the Artists at Different Periods
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...shape of a series of very carefully-executed photographs, by Antonio Perini, with descriptions by Francesco Zanoto. Although those photographs give the character of the heads, and the general composition of the designs in Tlloium qmitionea Mfanengit qnait botmg condona flratl pidatoa ami in mfem ley y butam cf urttos ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...shape of a series of very carefully-executed photographs, by Antonio Perini, with descriptions by Francesco Zanoto. Although those photographs give the character of the heads, and the general composition of the designs in Tlloium qmitionea Mfanengit qnait botmg condona flratl pidatoa ami in mfem ley y butam cf urttos ft #tnam timt partes a satisfactory manner, they fail to convey any clear idea of the brilliancy and beauty of the colours employed, especially in the exquisite and varied borders surrounding them, in most of which gold is made a leading feature. To compensate in some measure for this defect, the two first drawings in the volume have been most admirably fac-similed. They commence the illustrations of the seasons. On the one page is the calendar for January, showing, on the lower margin, a gang of poor men drawing, by the aid of a long rope, a heavy load over the snow. The opposite drawing displays the richly-furnished interior of a wealthy family, who are feasting around a table laden with the luxuries of that inclement season, which a number of welldressed attendants are busy in replenishing. Nothing can be more admirable than the execution of these most characteristic contrasts. UR1NG this time a peculiar feature in Flemish decorations was the introduction in their borders of flowing branches of trees, from which proceed masses of conventional foliage, in most graceful curves, the ends occasionally folding over each other, and the whole distributed into leaves with the most intricate subdivisions. Growing out of these branches, and filling the spaces between them, were the richest flowers and fruits, the gayest birds and insects, with every kind of being the fancy of the painter could suggest. In choice manuscripts these were copied with the ...
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