03 — ARTWORK
Aristotle: Works
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- Manuscript (PML 21194, 2 volumes), 409 x 272 mm
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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 ClassicalRelating to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome (classical Antiquity). The classical world played a profoundly important role in the Renaissance, with Italian scholars, writers, and artists seeing their own period as the rebirth (the "renaissance") of classical values after the Middle Ages. The classical world was considered the golden age for the arts, literature, philosophy, and politics. Concepts of the classical, however, changed greatly from one period to the next. Roman literature provided the starting point in the 14th century, scholars patiently finding, editing and translating a wide range of texts. In the 15th century Greek literature, philosophy and art - together with the close study of the remains of Roman buildings and sculptures-expanded the concept of the classical and ensured it remained a vital source of ideas and inspiration. 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 miniatureTerm originally applied to the art of manuscript illumination but later used of paintings, usually portraits, executed on a very small scale. The earliest miniaturists (16th century) continued to use the materials of the illuminators, painting in gouache on vellum or card. 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.
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