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"guide to the construction of letters"
pages from the "model book of calligraphy", vienna, originally created by georg bocskay from 1561-62, illuminated and expanded by joris hoefnagel, c. 1591–96
source: Getty Museum Collection, Ms. 20 (86.MV.527), fol. 143r-147r
#16th century#joris hoefnagel#mira calligraphiae monumenta#model book of calligraphy#guide to the construction of letters#georg bocskay#calligraphy#geometry#diagrams#hybrids#grotesques#illuminated manuscript
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Typography Tuesday
We return to our facsimile of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, or Model Book of Calligraphy, written in 1561/62 by Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and illuminated 30 years later by Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel for the grandson of Ferdinand I, Emperor Rudolph II. The manuscript was produced by Bocskay in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. To complement and augment Bocskay's calligraphy, Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page’s design. Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.
Our facsimile was the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992.
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#Typography Tuesday#typetuesday#Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta#or Model Book of Calligraphy#Georg Bocskay#Joris Hoefnagel#illuminated manuscripts#manuscripts#manuscript facsimiles#facsimiles#calligraphy#letter forms#letters#J. Paul Getty Museum#Imprimeries Reunies#Christopher Hudson#Ferdinand I#Rudolph II
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Joris Hoefnagel (Flemish, 1542-1601) • Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects • 1589
#still life#art#painting#fine art#art history#flemish artist#dutch golden age#floral still life#oil painting#artist#artwork#art of the still life blog#art blogs on tumblr#joris hoefnagel#art lovers on tumblr#16th century european art
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Joris Hoefnagel – Scientist of the Day
Joris Hoefnagel, a Flemish painter, miniaturist, and topographical artist, was born in Antwerp in 1542 and died on July 24, 1600, in Vienna (or so it is thought).
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#Joris Hoefnagel#art and science#naturalism#miniatures#histsci#histSTM#16th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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For #FrogFriday + #DragonflyWeek:
Joris Hoefnagel (Flemish, 1542-1600) & Georg Bocskay (Hungarian, d.1575)
Common Pear, Lake Demoiselle, Moor Frog, and Hyacinth: Mira calligraphiae monumenta, Ms. 20 (86_MV_527), fol. 75
1561–1562; illumination added 1591–1596
Watercolors, gold & silver paint, ink
16.6 × 12.4 cm (6 9/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
Getty Museum collection
#animals in art#animal holiday#european art#illuminated manuscript#Hungarian art#Flemish art#natural history art#calligraphy#16th century art#Getty Museum#Frog Friday#Dragonfly Week#frog#Joris Hoefnagel#insect#damselfly#Georg Bocskay#amphibian
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Joris Hoefnagel
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Watercolours by Joris Hoefnagel, ca. 1575. From the National Gallery of Art.
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Caterpillar, Dog-Tooth Violet, Pear, and Apricot
1561–1562; illumination added 1591–1596
Joris Hoefnagel (Flemish, / Hungarian, 1542 - 1600), and Georg Bocskay (Hungarian, died 1575)
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Guide to the Construction of Letters from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta illustrated by Joris Hoefnagel (about 1591–1596)
Getty Open Content
#quite possibly the most beautiful calligraphy guide I've seen#just looked up the first half of this book and oh my god it gets better#Joris Hoefnagel#renaissance illustration#calligraphy
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Trompe l'Oeil Stem of a Maltese Cross; Joris Hoefnagel, Flemish / Hungarian, 1542 - 1600; Vienna, Austria
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manuscript and calligraphy, Joris Hoefnagel Flemish (1542-1600)
#typography#manuscript#16th century#17th century#history#calligraphy#art#Joris Hoefnagel Flemish#LONG POST
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Typography Tuesday
Sometimes, things in our collection still surprise me, even after 29 years. From our fairly sizable manuscript facsimile collection, I was surprised I had never encountered this little (5 X 7 in.) reproduction of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992.
As the relatively new invention of printing came to dominate the production of books by the 1500s, the calligraphic inventiveness of scribes became prized for their aesthetic qualities rather than their production value.
From 1561 to 1562, Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created this Model Book of Calligraphy in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. About thirty years later, Emperor Rudolph II, Ferdinand's grandson, commissioned the [Flemish painter] Joris Hoefnagel to illuminate Bocskay's model book. Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page's design. -- Getty Museum Collection webpage.
Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.
Today we only show 11 pages from the facsimile, but we hope to present more from this highly-inventive manuscript of calligraphic virtuosity in the future.
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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections
#Typography Tuesday#typetuesday#Typography Tuesday#Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta#Georg Bocskay#Joris Hoefnagel#calligraphy#letter forms#letters#J. Paul Getty Museum#Imprimeries Reunies#Christopher Hudson#illuminated manuscripts#facsimiles#manuscript facsimiles#Ferdinand I#Rudolph II
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Michael Snijders, after Hieronymus Wierix, after Joris Hoefnagel - Allegory of Death.
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Joris Hoefnagel and Georg Bocskay - Dragonfly, Pear, Carnation, and Insect - 16th c. - via Getty Open Content
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(1) stag beetle, (2) papillon (butterfly), (3) vintage butterfly illustration, (4) stag beetle by joris hoefnagel, (5) large moth by by joris hoefnagel, (6) der herkuleskaefer (the hercules beetle) from biodiversity library, (7) green beetle by joris hoefnagel, (8) large dragonfly by joris hoefnagel, (9) king stag beetle by artbyestherbolz
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