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illuminators’ matErials and tEchniquEs
have often discoloured into browns (pls. 12b, c, d). Glazes defined folds in deeper,
semi-transparent shades, as in the pink drapery of the Lambeth Apocalypse and the
St John’s Psalter miniatures (pls. 8a, 9); the red and yellow organics over vermilion
and yellow earth in the Trinity Apocalypse (pls. 12e, f); the red glazes on the red
lead drapery in the Bolognese Bible (pl. 11b); and Master Honoré’s indigo shading
of verdigris folds (pl. 12g). These examples of glazes detected over green, pink, red
and yellow textiles suggest that the latter once conveyed three-dimensional effects
similar to those still observed on blue and purple fabrics.
As well as blending colours into smoothly modelled drapery, thirteenth-century
artists occasionally sought to recreate the contrasting texture, reflective qualities
and iridescent effects of silk-shot fabrics (cangianti). Depictions of these shim- pl. 12: Photomicroscopy details
of drapery modelling in London,
Lambeth Palace Library, MS 209,
fols. 1r (a), 1v (d); Cambridge,
St John’s College, MS K.26,
fol. 23v (b); Cambridge, Trinity
College, MS R.16.2, fols. 1v (e),
2v (c), 12r (f); Fitzwilliam Muse-
um, MS 368 (g)
Europäische Bild- und Buchkultur im 13. Jahrhundert
- Title
- Europäische Bild- und Buchkultur im 13. Jahrhundert
- Author
- Christine Beier
- Editor
- Michaela Schuller-Juckes
- Publisher
- Böhlau Verlag
- Location
- Wien
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-205-21193-8
- Size
- 18.5 x 27.8 cm
- Pages
- 290
- Categories
- Geschichte Chroniken