# Aristotle: Works

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## Artwork

- Artist: [GIROLAMO DA CREMONA](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/girolamo-da-cremona-r3e6e7e08a15cf6>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Manuscript \(PML 21194, 2 volumes\), 409 x 272 mm

## Commentary

This sumptuous book, finished in 1483 in Venice for Peter Ugelheimer, merchant from Frankfurt, contains the works in Latin translation of and commentaries on the Classical philosopher, Aristotle \(384-322 B.C.\). It is a transitional product after the invention of printing by Johannes Gutenberg: the text portion was printed and the illustrations drawn and painted over by hand. The practice of combining printed text with hand-painted miniatures was prevalent from the invention of print with movable type to around 1500. In the miniature on folio 1r, volume II, the text page is arranged in such a manner that it seems to hang down from a balcony on which a group of philosophers \(the seven wise men of Antiquity\) stand, deeply engaged in conversation.

## Related artworks

- [Aristotle: Works](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/girolamo-da-cremona-r3e6e7e08a15cf6/aristotle-works-r51aad519959dbd>)
- [Aristotle: Works](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/girolamo-da-cremona-r3e6e7e08a15cf6/aristotle-works-rf5ff3bdcf4314a>)
- [Choirbook](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/girolamo-da-cremona-r3e6e7e08a15cf6/choirbook-r7dee92ab504f51>)
- [Consilia et allegationes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/girolamo-da-cremona-r3e6e7e08a15cf6/consilia-et-allegationes-re55b17ba35ca94>)
- [Decretum of Gratian](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/girolamo-da-cremona-r3e6e7e08a15cf6/decretum-of-gratian-red391dad3f5192>)
- [Missal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/girolamo-da-cremona-r3e6e7e08a15cf6/missal-r4c7f3a1096a145>)
- [Prayer Book](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/girolamo-da-cremona-r3e6e7e08a15cf6/prayer-book-r18327b74620b8a>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)