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.
For the introductory page opening volume I, Girolamo da Cremona created a masterpieceA term now loosely applied to the finest work by a particular artist or to any work of art of acknowledged greatness or of preeminence in its field. Originally it meant the piece of work by which a craftsman, having finished his training, gained the rank of'master' in his guild. of illusionistic painting, a prime example of the trompe-l'oeil technique, as the beholder first thinks he is looking through torn and bent corners, edges and holes in the parchmentWriting material made from the skins of sheep or calf, less frequently pig, goat,, and other animals; it has also been used for painting, and occasionally for printing and bookbinding. Pliny says that it ewas invented in the 2nd century BC in Pergamum; hence the name parchment from the Latin pergamena (of Pergamum). Skin had been used as a writng material before this, but the refined methods of cleaning and stretching involved in making parchment enabled booth sides of a leaf to be used, leading eventually to the supplanting of the manuscript roll by the bound book. Vellum is a fine kind of parchment made from delicate skins of young (sometimes stillborn) animals. Paper began to replace parchment from about the 14th century, but parchment is still used for certain kinds of documents, and the name is often applied to high-quality writng paper., to view the architectonicRelating to structure, design, or organization. ornamental scenery partly populated with animals, putti and satyrs visible beneath. The appearance of oriental figures with turbans at the top of the page is a typical feature of Venetian painting in the 1480s after Gentile Bellini's journey to Constantinople.
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