![]() ![]() We have been studying and reconstructing the medieval processes to make pigments and paints which were used to create medieval manuscript illuminations with the long-term goal of conserving them in the original artworks. In this paper, we will discuss the technical aspects relevant for the success of the making of the painting materials and of the experimentation of this remarkable text, copied in the fifteenth century. It also instructs on the binding media that should be used to produce the colour paints. This medieval treatise describes the main steps and ingredients for producing painting materials, such as mosaic gold, red lead, verdigris, brazilwood lake pigments, lac dye red, vermilion, parchment glue, among others. Its ultimate purpose was possibly to assist on the production of Hebrew Bibles, where the precision of the text would have been illuminated by the colours described in this ‘book of all colour paints’. ![]() Parma 1959 (Parma, Italy, Biblioteca Palatina, MS 1959, folios 1r–20r). This unique knowledge and know-how was carefully preserved in Portuguese language, in Hebrew characters, in a collection of texts now known as Ms. This illuminator was the carrier of a tradition on how to make colours with ‘which you can illuminate or paint or capitalize or write’ that dates back, at least, to the thirteenth century. Rudy and B.The book on how to make all the colour paints for illuminating books invites readers to step inside the workshop of a fifteenth century illuminator in Portugal. ![]() Textiles and their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages, edited by K.M. ‘Weaving Mary’s Chaplet: the Representation of the Rosary in Late Medieval Flemish Manuscript Illumination’, in: Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing.Re-Making the Margin: The Master of the David Scenes and Flemish Manuscript Painting around 1500 (2013).Catalogue of Manuscripts and Miniatures from the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (2014) Opstellen over schrift en schriftcultuur, edited by M. ‘Middeleeuwse handschriften uit Groningse kloosters – Feldwerd’, in: Schriftgeheimen.Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (vol. ‘The Missing Miniatures of the Hours of Louis Quarré’.Korteweg, Splendour of the Burgundian Netherlands: Southern Netherlandish Illuminated Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (2018) Journal of the Alamire Foundation (2019, volume 11, issue 1-2, pp. ‘The Grotesque Initials in the Alamire Choirbooks’.Oud Holland - Journal for Art of the Low Countries (2021, nos. ‘Manuscript production in the monastery of St Hieronymusdal in Lopsen, near Leiden’.Illuminare scribendo – Research and Projects in Art History In 2019 she became involved in the RKD project The Arts in Leiden, her work resulting in an article in Oud Holland about manuscript production in the monastery of Lopsen, near Leiden.Īnne Margreet As-Vijvers joined the RKD as senior curator of Medieval Manuscript Illumination at the start of 2022. She has written about urban and monastic book production, about musical manuscripts for the aristocracy, the use of books of hours in private devotion, as well as the meaning of flowers and other motifs in the border decoration of manuscripts. Operating under the banner Illuminare scribendo – Research and projects in Art History, she conducts research and editorial work for museums, universities and private collectors both in the Netherlands and abroad. Since 1999, Anne Margreet has worked as a freelance scholar on the subject of medieval manuscript illumination, specialising in illuminated manuscripts from both the Northern and Southern Netherlands. Her book was nominated for the Karel van Mander Prize in 2018. In 2002 she obtained her doctorate, cum laude, from the University of Amsterdam with a thesis on Southern Netherlandish manuscript illumination, which was published in 2013 as Re-Making the Margin: The Master of the David Scenes and Flemish Manuscript Painting around 1500. Anne Margreet As-Vijvers studied Art History at the University of Amsterdam and followed a subsidiary course on palaeography and codicology at the University of Leiden. ![]()
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