FLEXIBLE SOFTCOVER NOTEBOOK
Lined: 9781439793503
- Flexible softcover and spine
- 208 lined pages - 95 x 140mm (3.75 x 5.5in) - 80gsm
- Expanded page count for boundless creativity!
- Smythe sewn binding
- Decorated page edges
- Back cover memento pouch
- Bookmark satin ribbon page marker
- Acid-free, archival paper
- Takes pen and ink beautifully
Mira Botanica
The art of still life painting is a celebrated part of Dutch culture, but this time-honoured artistic style didn’t develop from thin air. Before still life emerged, there were illustrators who delicately illuminated handwritten manuscripts with images of plants, fruits, flowers, animals and insects to add emotional power to a written work.
One of the most celebrated practitioners of this style of illumination was Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). Hoefnagel, a pivotal artistic figure from the Netherlands, is remembered as being the last important Flemish manuscript illuminator and one of the first artists to work on the new genre of still life. In the 1590s, Emperor Rudolf II commissioned Hoefnagel to add his illuminations to the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a mid-16th-century manuscript on the art of calligraphy by Georg Bocskay.
The Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy) is regarded as one of the last important examples of European manuscript illumination. Today, the book can be found in the Getty Museum.
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