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 from an Antiphoner

Maker(s)

Artist: Gherarducci, Don Silvestro dei
Artist: Canzoni, Maestro delle
Artist: Rosselli, Niccolo
Artist: Cenni, Cenni di Francesco di Ser

Novella in Decretales

Maker(s)

Artist: Nascimbene, Nicolò di Giacomo di
Scribe: Bartoli, Bartolomeo dei

Miniature from the Missal of Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini

Historiated initial from a Gradual

Maker(s)

Artist: Gherarducci, Don Silvestro dei
Artist: Canzoni, Maestro delle
Artist: Rosselli, Niccolo
Artist: Francesco di Ser Cenni, Cenni di

Portolan Atlas

Maker(s)

Artist: Agnese, Battista

Miniature from the Hours of Albrecht of Brandenburg: Last Judgement

Maker(s)

Artist: Bening, Simon

Henricus Bohic, Distinctiones in libros quinque Decretalium

Maker(s)

Author: Bohic, Henricus

Miniature from a Psalter

Maker(s)

Illuminator: Brailes, William de
Scribe: Brailes, William de

Miniature from a Psalter

Maker(s)

Artist: Brailes, William de

Fragment from a Sacramentary

Astronomical Miscellany

Gradual

Miniature from a Psalter

Maker(s)

Artist: Brailes, William de

Civis Bononiae, Collection on chess and other board games

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