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 set of Choir books

Maker(s)

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

Breviary

Initial from an Antiphoner

Leaf from a Gradual

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artists: Masters of the Beady Eyes

St Ephraem the Syrian and St Isaac of Nineveh, Sermones

Maker(s)

Author: St Ephraem the Syrian
Author: St Isaac of Nineveh
Translator: Traversari, Ambrogio

Initial from an Antiphoner

Book of Hours

Initial from a Gradual

Framed Miniature

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Painter of Add. MS. 15677

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Painter of Add. MS. 15677

Hours

Maker(s)

Author: Grote, Geert

Cutting

Two leaves from a Book of Hours

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Painter of Add. MS. 15677

Cutting from a Gradual

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Cutting from a Gradual

Framed miniature

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Painter of Add. MS. 15677

Cutting from a Gradual

Dialogi

Maker(s)

Author: Gregory the Great

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