Most of the painting on antique manuscript pages occurs within decorated initials, ornate letters that open a passage or a page. Modern eyes have trouble recognizing many of the stylized letters.

molaa.org Painted Prophecy: The Hebrew Bible through Christian Eyes Illuminated manuscripts of Old Testament ... North Sepulveda Boulevard & Getty Center Drive, L.A. Starts Tue.; ...

At the stately Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan, a 15th-century illuminated manuscript lies unfinished ... and a rubricator would draw red letters for emphasis. Then, an artist would lightly ...

The first show is titled “Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts from the 13th to ... He would outline the letters, get someone to approve it, and then either he or someone else would fill ...

All of them build on a recent history of the study of illuminated manuscripts that has grown in momentum in tandem with the age of post-analogue reproduction to become the world of the modern ...

Analyzing pigments in medieval illuminated manuscript pages is opening up some new areas of research bridging the arts and sciences, report investigators. Analyzing pigments in medieval ...

Martina Caruana will be delivering a talk entitled The Illuminated Book on Thursday at Din l-Art Ħelwa at 6.30pm. This lecture introduces the illuminated book by discussing the types of ...

CANADIAN — The Citadelle Art Museum is pleased to present "Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts, 13th-18th Centuries," which includes more than 35 works — some with elaborate gold leaf ...

Conservators and scientists studying illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge say their work could help uncover ancient techniques used by artists. The Fitzwilliam Museum worked with scientists at ...

Analysis of the fossilized dental plaque of a Medieval woman reveals lapis lazuli, suggesting she was an accomplished painter of illuminated manuscripts. During the European Middle Ages, literacy and ...