Illumination

Scope note

Use for the art or process of providing decoration with gold, silver, or bright colors to pages or letters in manuscripts; also refers to similar decoration done by hand in early printed books.

This term has 614 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique
Object category

Getty AAT term number

3000220539

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Historiated initial

Maker(s)

Artist: Monza, Antonio da

Leaf from a Lectionary

Initial from a Choir book

Historiated initial from an Antiphoner

Maker(s)

Scribe: Veneziano, Venturino
Artist: Battista da Udine, Giovan

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Author: Grote, Geert
Artist: Master of Fitzwilliam 146

Gradual

Antiphons, Responsories and Readings for the Virgin

Maker(s)

Scribe: Keijffer, Georgius

Chronica

Maker(s)

Author: Eusebius Pamphilii
Scribe: Pollini, Domenico di Niccolò

Cutting (manuscript)

Historiated initial from a Choir Book

Breviary

Miniature from an Antiphoner

Maker(s)

Artist: Cortese, Cristoforo

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Illuminator: Bourdichon, Jean

Cutting (manuscript)

Il libro di Sidrach

Maker(s)

Scribe: Pico, Pietro

Missal

Book of Hours

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Illuminators: Masters of Otto van Moerdrecht

Historiated initial from a Gradual

Maker(s)

Artist: Cortese, Cristoforo

Initial from a Choir Psalter with Hymnal

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of the Budapest Antiphoner

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artists: Masters of the Gold Scrolls

Historiated initial from a set of Choir books

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