The century-long convention of placing plants on a grassy surface is disastrously altered by the use of black for the usual green or yellow flora. Illustrator B’s figure drawing is unskilled, colours have lost their clear intensity and are either muddy or ill-applied, and shading of drapery in self-colour has been replaced by straight lines in black or by outlining in a contrasting colour. The style and technique of illustrator B represent a typical degeneration from the competence of the third quarter of the century. Scott characterized the work of one of its illuminators as follows: In a catalog entry devoted to British Library Arundel MS 66-a manuscript of astrological treatises produced in 1490 for King Henry VII of England-Kathleen L. Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst The symposium will continue November 16th-17th at the Kislak Center of Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania. The program will begin Thursday evening at 5:00 pm on November 15, 2018, at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, with a keynote lecture by Professor Susie Nash, Courtauld Institute of Art. Of special interest will be insights gained from the technical examination of works in different media, new comparisons made possible by digital technology, and the discovery of linkages once obscured by strict historiographical divisions ![]() The goal of this year’s symposium is to examine cases of intermedial exchange through the lenses of technique, style, iconography, social context, and cultural geography, while also posing broader questions about the deep connections between the craft of illumination and other arts more widely. Historically, however, the technique was closely associated with other forms of artistic expression and served as a crucial point of contact and transfer for visual motifs across space and time. Manuscript illumination has often been considered in relation to the texts it accompanies, but rarely in terms of its interplay with other artistic media. ![]() Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. ![]() In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies ( SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 11th Annual Lawrence J.
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