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

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Leaf from a set of Choir books

Maker(s)

Artist: Pietro, Sano di
Artist: Rossini, Pellegrino di Mariano

Hours

Maker(s)

Scribe: Prato, Julianus Antonii de
Artist: Nanni, Ser Ricciardo di

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artists: Masters of the Beady Eyes

Leaf from a Gradual

Epistulae

Maker(s)

Author: Jerome
Artist: Jacopo da Fabriano

Leaf from an Antiphonal

Leaf from a Gradual

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Author: Grote, Geert
Artist: Master of the KOG Book of Hours

Annunciation

Hours

Leaf from a Choir Psalter

Historiated initial from an Antiphoner

Hours

Leaf from a set of Choir books

Maker(s)

Artist: Pietro, Sano di
Artist: Rossini, Pellegrino di Mariano

Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Bellini, Leonardo

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

An image of MS 180_ff1v_2v_dc1_legacy.jpg

Vita Caroli Magni (Life of Charlemagne)

Maker(s)

Author: Acciaiuoli, Donato
Scribe: Benedetto Strozzi, Messer Piero di
Artist: Chierico, Francesco di Antonio del and associate

Gospel book

Hours

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Scribe: Albrecht of Breslau

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Painter of Add. MS. 15677

Ornamental initial from a Missal

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Painter of Add. MS. 15677

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