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Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta: A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel by Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg
Category: Art and Design
Now back in print, “the ultimate booklover’s gift book”—Los Angeles Times In 1561–62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy) as a demonstration of his own preeminence a ...Show more
Noir by Lee Hendrix
Category: Art and Design | Series: Getty Publications - (Yale) Ser.
Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise to an unprecedented amount of experimentation. Indeed, ...Show more
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