Title: The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0500511276
ISBN 13: 9780500511275
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 240 grams

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The court of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the "Mira Calligraphae Monumenta", a brilliant amalgamation of two arts - calligraphy and miniature painting. The project began when Georg Bocskay, a pre-eminent scribe) assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historic scripts ranging from the latest Italic and humanist writing to antique Roman and German Gothic. 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. This marvel of the Central European Renaissance is now in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. A selection from its pages is presented here in this book, which will be of interest to scholars, collectors, bibliophiles and art historians.

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