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

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Author: Grote, Geert
Artists: Masters of the Dark Eyes

Miscellany (verse and prose)

Maker(s)

Artist: Ghent Master

Historiated initial from a set of Choir books

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Illuminator: Bourdichon, Jean

Miniature from Jacques Le Lieur, Poème sur la Passion

Maker(s)

Author: Lieur, Jacques le
Illuminator: Master of Girard Acarie

Breviary-Capitulary

St Antonino Pierozzi OP, Medicina dell’anima

Maker(s)

Author: St Antonino Pierozzi OP

Psalter and Hours

Initial from an Antiphoner

Leaf from a Missal

Office of Corpus Christi

Historiated initial from a Choir book

Maker(s)

Artist: Mercati, Venturino and associates

Historiated initial from a Choir book

Maker(s)

Artist: Mercati, Venturino and associates

Leaf from a Doge’s Commission

Maker(s)

Artist: Huntington Master

Pontifical Mass Book

Maker(s)

Scribe: Fr Andreas de Andreis of Split

Border fragment

Decretum

Maker(s)

Author: Gratian
Artist: B 18 Master (alias Second Master of the San Domenico Choir

Book of Hours

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Chierico. Francesco di Antonio del

Leaf from a Missal

Miniature from a Choir book

Leaf from a Missal

Book of Hours

Historiated initial from an Antiphoner

Maker(s)

Artist: Libri, Girolamo dai

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