calligraphy stack
DESCRIPTION
This presentation gives student expectations and an brief overview of calligraphy as a high art form in other cultures. Perhaps if we can understand this we might understand the people better. I believe an appreciation of art is helpful in appreciating others in general. This presentation also has practice screens for Italic, Old English, and Modified Old English letterforms.TRANSCRIPT
The Lindisfarne Gospels is one of the world's masterpieces of
manuscript painting. It is a piece of transition from the world of
Greco-Roman antiquity into the Middle Ages. A richly decorated
book, the Lindisfarne Gospels was created in the early eighth century
CE for ceremonial use at the monastery of Lindisfarne in the
northeast of England. The manuscript's main text, which was
written out by a single scribe, is a Latin version of the Four Gospels
known as Saint Jerome's Vulgate. The Gospels contains 15 pages of
complex patterns and intertwined with fanciful birds and animals. At the start of each of the Gospels is
an illustration of its author with his symbol, and throughout the text
pages of the manuscript are numerous decorated initials.
