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introduction of printing rapidly led to the decline of illumination. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced in the early 16th century but in...

Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination Chatto & Windus, London (New York, George Braziller), 1977. Cahn, Walter, Romanesque Bible Illumination, Ithaca, New...

12th century, manuscript illumination. St Luke in The Hours of Mary of Burgundy, c. 1477, Northern Renaissance manuscript illumination. Ezekiel’s Vision...

Turkish or Ottoman illumination refers to non-figurative painted or drawn decorative art found in manuscripts or on sheets in muraqqa. In Turkish it is...

Figurative sculpture was based on two other sources in particular, manuscript illumination and small-scale sculpture in ivory and metal. The extensive friezes...

destruction of an icon. Illumination flourished starting from the late 9th century to the 12th century. Several hundred manuscripts are preserved from this...

Illuminationism (Persian حكمت اشراق hekmat-e eshrāq, Arabic: حكمة الإشراق ḥikmat al-ishrāq, both meaning "Wisdom of the Rising Light"), also known as...

centers of writing and illumination). The most striking are those of Syunik, Vaspurakan and Cilicia. Many Armenian illuminated manuscripts outside the country...

gold Kufic inscriptions on red or blue backgrounds. More sophisticated illumination is already evident in a copy of a sahih dated to 1120 (during the reign...

used as an ornamental design in architecture, and in medieval manuscript illumination (particularly in the Insular tradition). Its depiction as interlaced...

The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese. The vellum on which it is written has been...

presence Illuminationism, philosophical doctrine according to which the process of human thought needs to be aided by divine grace Illuminated manuscript, the...

become standard by the early fifteenth-century in painting and manuscript illumination in Italy and Flanders, and then spread to all Western art. According...

capitals generally bear far more resemblance to the intricacies of manuscript illumination than to Classical sources. In parts of France and Italy, there...

Renaissance illumination refers to the production of illuminated manuscripts in Western Europe in the late 15th and 16th centuries, influenced by the representational...

Insular illumination refers to the production of illuminated manuscripts in the monasteries of Ireland and Great Britain between the 6th and 9th centuries...

ecclesiastical furniture. On the other hand, the rise of gold work and manuscript illumination brought about a resurgence of Celtic decoration, which, with Christian...

writing system common to Ireland and England Insular illumination – style of manuscript illumination originating in the British Isles and IrelandPages displaying...

Burlamacchi (1482–1548) was an Italian nun who practiced the art of manuscript illumination. Eufrasia Burlamacchi was born in Lucca as a member of the wealthy...

Romanesque architecture, stone carving, metalwork, enamelling and manuscript illumination reaching a high level of development during the 11th, 12th and...