GCM 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Virgil, Vergilius Vaticanus, Illuminated Manuscript
17 Nov 2015
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Chapter 4: two great traditions of manuscript illumination arethe eastern in islamic countries and the. Aeneas, who left the flaming ruins of troy and set out to found a new city in the west. Much writing had become a slurred scrawl; the new alphabet restored legibility: elegant examples of manuscripts written in caroline minuscule include the capitularies of charlemagne and louis the pious c. 873 ce. (fig. Gregory the great"s moralia in iob (commentary on job), created in france during the eleventh or twelfth century (fig. Spanish pictorial expressionism: iberian peninsula 711 ce, flat shapes of intense color were used. Sometimes they were sprinkled with stars, rosettes, polygons, or garlands in optically active contrasting colors. 4 17) is an elegant example of the french gothic style: the douce apocalypse (fig. 4 18), written and illustrated around 1265 ce, is one of the many masterpieces of gothic illumination: lettering.
