Collection
Status
Available
Description
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.
Publication
London : Thames & Hudson, 2003.
ISBN
0500511276 / 9780500511275
Pages
64
Language
Original language
English