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

Broader Terms used

<image-making processes and techniques>

Term used for

Equivalent Terms used

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Book of hours

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artists: Masters of Hugo Jansz. van Woerden
Author: Grote, Geert

An image of Book of hours

Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Giovanni, Gherardo di and assistants

An image of Book of hours

Twelve Miniatures from Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Wing, William Caleb

An image of Fragment (manuscript)

Border fragment from the Missal of Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini

An image of Fragment (manuscript)

Border fragment from the Missal of Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini

An image of Book of hours

Book of hours

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artists: Masters of the Beady Eyes

Breviary

An image of Cistercian Use

Gospel Lectionary

An image of Other

Vitae duodecim Caesarum

Maker(s)

Author: Suetonius
Artist: Firenze, Andrea da
Scribe: Monasterio, Johannes Hornsen de

An image of MS 165_f61v_201904_kly25_dc1.jpg

L’instruction d’un jeune prince

Maker(s)

Artist: Marmion, Simon
Artist: Liédet, Loyset
Author: de Lannoy, Guillebert or Hugues
Author: René d’Anjou

An image of Book of hours

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Lathem, Lieven van

An image of Antiphoner

Antiphoner

Maker(s)

Artists: Battista Rosa, Giovanni and assistants
Scribe: Ballo, Giovanni (Iohannes Ballus)

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Historiated initial from an Antiphoner

An image of Ambrosian use

Breviary

An image of Other

Milleloquium of St Ambrose

Maker(s)

Author: Caruso of Urbino, Bartolomeo
Illuminator: Vimercate, Tomasino da
Artist: Taegio, Anrigino da
Scribe: Guioldis, Petrus de
Scribe: Bregonziis de Soma, Dyonisius de

An image of Book of hours

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of Fitzwilliam 268

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Cutting from a choir book

Maker(s)

Artist: Cortese, Cristoforo

An image of Book of hours

Book of Hours

Leaf from a Choir Psalter

An image of Book of hours

Hours

An image of Other

Opera

Maker(s)

Author: Lactantius
Scribe: Gobellini de Lins, Johannes

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Author: Grote, Geert

Illuminated leaf from a manuscript of Gratian’s Decretum with the Glossa ordinaria of Bartolomeo da Brescia

Maker(s)

Artist: The Marlay Gratian atelier
Author: Gratian
Author: Brescia, Bartolomeo da

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