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...books, it was much cribbed and often illuminated; the loveliest of the versions that survive is an edition with gold leaf on vellum that once belonged to Ferdinand and Isabel of Spain. It can now be seen in a display of medieval masterworks at The Cloisters in Manhattan. The miniaturist is unknown, but he seems to have followed the hunt almost as well as his author, perhaps even ridden to hounds with...
Head Start on Heaven. By the end of the 14th century, miniaturists had become highly sophisticated and confidently eclectic, adopting whatever suited them out of Hellenic, Byzantine or Oriental styles. The Gaston miniaturist was keenly observant of nature, as his grazing mountain goats testify. When it came to portraying the rugged Pyrenees, however, he resorted to stylized mountains that turn up frequently in Byzantine, Italian and French illuminations. In place of the sky, he painted a decorative pattern common in Middle East miniatures. Though he had not yet learned how to model his figures to give them a more lifelike...
Lexicon of Symbols. Grandville was born Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard in Nancy in 1803, the son of a miniaturist and the grandson of a famed
...last years as a recitalist he took to playing up to the ladies in the audience, leaving them tearful with languid, fatalistic little tunes like The Dying Poet and The Last Hope. When he died,* that is the way the world remembered and then forgot him-as an adorable miniaturist...
...other more interesting pieces include: a pleasantly simple cauldron of the eighth century B.C. that combines utility and decoration in smooth, clean lines, a magnificent portrait head of Alexander the Great, a seventeenth century jade ewer inlaid with gold and set with rubies and emeralds, intricate and enormous carpets, miniaturist painting and goldware of the second millennium...