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The art of the pen : calligraphy from the court of the Emperor Rudolf II
- Title
- The art of the pen : calligraphy from the court of the Emperor Rudolf II / Lee Hendrix and Thea Vignau-Wilberg.
- Publication
- Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, ©2003.
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- Description
- 64 p. : col. ill.; 19cm
- Summary
- "The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a brilliant 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 pre-eminent scribe, Bocskay assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historic scripts ranging from the latest Italic and humanist writing to antique Roman and German Gothic. Many were intended not for practical use but for virtuosic display - lines filled with vines, mirror writing, and tiny micrography." "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 image is rare and constitutes one of the marvels of the Central European Renaissance." "The manuscript is now in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. A selection from its pages is presented here as testimony to the artistic imagination and skill of its creators."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Mira calligraphiae monumenta. Selections.
- Alternative Title
- Calligraphy from the court of the Emperor Rudolf II
- Subject
- Bocskay, Georg, -1575
- Hoefnagel, Joris, 1542-1601
- Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1552-1612 > Art patronage
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- Mira calligraphiae monumenta
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance > Europe, Central
- Manuscripts, Renaissance > Malibu > Facsimiles
- Natural history illustration > Europe, Central > Early works to 1800
- Calligraphy > Europe, Central > Early works to 1800
- Note
- Selected pages from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a 16th-century calligraphic ms. by Georg Bocskay, with illuminations by Joris Hoefnagel, now preserved in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Ms. 20).
- "The illustrations in this book have been selected from Mira calligraphiae monumenta, first published by the J. Paul Getty Museum and Thames and Hudson, Ltd. in 1992. The texts have been adapted from the same volume."--T.p. verso.
- ISBN
- 0892366222
- OCLC
- 52533632
- ocm52533632
- SCSB-14547954
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries