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Paperback Illuminated Manuscripts: Large Print Book

ISBN: 1698236581

ISBN13: 9781698236582

Illuminated Manuscripts: Large Print

What is meant by art?-The art faculty- How artists may becompared-The aim of illumination- Distinction between illumination andminiature- Definition of illumination-The first miniature painter-Origin of the term "miniature"-Ovid's allusion to his little book. THE desire for decoration is probably as old as the human race. Nature, ofcourse, is the source of beauty, and this natural beauty affects somethingwithin us which has or is the faculty of reproducing the cause of its emotionin a material form. Whether the reproduction be such as to appeal to the eyeor the ear depends on the cast of the faculty. In a mild or elementary form, probably both casts of faculty exist in every animated creature, andespecially in the human being...

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