~Jasna Horvat
Hi all! Happy Art Thursday! A historiated initial is "an enlarged letter at the beginning of a paragraph or other section of text, which contains a picture." (Wikipedia)
I have a little workbook for practicing decorative letters. Hoping to get better at it, although I don't aspire to making ones as complex as these!
Solomon observing the stars, circa 1170-1180
Decorative initial from a play printed in 1547
Initial from a medical treatise printed in Venice in 1547
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Initial from an edition of Petrarch printed in 1549
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Initials of Sámuel Falka Bikfalvi from 1824
1 comment:
These are really cool. But I must say, "Solomon observing the stars" is magnificent.
Good luck learning to do this.
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