Songs sung blue…. One of the loveliest miniature paintings of the Italian Renaissance is this “Adoration of the magi” by Girolamo of Cremona. The swirling dolphins, fruits and vines that surround the holy scene almost obscure the fact that the whole work is an illumination of the letter “O”. it is part of a choir book now in the Piccolomini Library at Siena, and appeared in Italian Miniatures, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
—nitial capital letter with the Adoration of the Magi, miniature by Girolamo of Cremona and the Liberale of Verona from a gradual, manuscript, Italy 15th Century.
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De Agostini Picture Library / G. Nimatallah
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(see link at end)…Girolamo, who at this point had already been active for three decades, was making use of a visual device that had been employed by other book illuminators numerous times before and in a variety of circumstances. Namely, he undertook to reconcile the visual role of the patently two-dimensional text block (which in practice was nearly always written or printed before any illustration occurred) with a lavishly painted, illusionistically convincing scene. Responding to the inquisitive nature of the text he was asked to illustrate, Girolamo pushed several of the solutions derived by his predecessors to the point of rupture, where the illusionism of the composition collapses in on itself
and raises more questions about the nature of representation than it answers.Read More:https://files.nyu.edu/nah261/public/Herman_Excavating_the_Page.pdf
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