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Colour: the art & science of illuminated manuscripts


Contents

Colour in illuminated manuscripts / Stella Panayotova -- The illuminators' palette / Paola Ricciardi and Kristine Rose Beers -- The trade in colours / Spike Bucklow -- The image of the illuminator / Richard Gameson -- Pigment recipes and model books: mechanisms for knowledge transmission and the training of manuscript illuminators / Nancy K. Turner and Doris Oltrogge -- Alchemy and colour / Spike Bucklow -- Masters' secrets / Stella Panayotova and Paola Ricciardi -- From vandalism to reconstruction / Stella Panayotova with contributions by Marie D'Autume ... [and others] -- Painting with gold and silver / Nigel Morgan -- Modelling in manuscript painting c. 1050-c.1500 / Nigel Morgan -- Grisaille in manuscript painting / Nigel Morgan and Elizabeth J. Moodey -- 'Incarnation' illuminated: painting the flesh in medieval and renaissance manuscripts / Nancy Turner -- Colour theory, optics and manuscript illumination / Stella Panayotova -- Colour and meaning / Deirdre Jackson -- Analytical methods and equipment / Paola Ricciardi.

Contributors


Publisher

  • Publication

    London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2016

  • Year


Is about

  • Subject

  • Period

    700-1900


Type

  • Language


Classification

  • ISBN

    • 1909400564
    • 9781909400573
    • 1909400572
    • 9781909400566

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    Catalog of an exhibition that celebrates the bicentenary of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from July 30-December 30, 2016.


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