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Graphic Design in the Middle Ages. Medieval artists and scribes were among the world’s first graphic designers. Explore the innovative ways these artists worked, and how their ideas carry...
In the Middle Ages, as in later periods, drawings were used to illustrate scientific and scholarly works. The conventions of representation and systems of thought familiar to medieval audiences often confound the modern viewer; careful study of medieval diagrams underscores the concern of medieval thinkers for both clarity and elegance in ...
29 sie 2023 · Exploring the idea of designing a medieval book, from the layout of the page to text as graphic organizing tool, and the role of ornament in the structure of the finished product, this exhibition reveals the ways that design influenced the reading and interpretation of medieval books.
The exhibition “Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages,” on view at the Metropolitan Museum through August 23, 2009, provides a chronological tour of the medieval draftsman’s art, beginning around 800 A.D. and ending in the middle of the fourteenth century.
The Middle Ages saw the birth of the book as an art object. Explore seminal texts like the Book of Kells, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and the Kalendarium, and learn how they were made.
29 sie 2023 · Graphic Design in the Middle Ages. August 29, 2023–January 28, 2024, GETTY CENTER. Exhibition Closed. Medieval scribes and artists were some of the world’s first graphic designers. They planned individual pages and entire books in creative ways, using handwritten text and painted decoration.
These drawings often explicitly take their inspiration from objects—buildings, works of art, plants, and animals—likely seen by the artist. Some were called by medieval artists drawings “from life” and they testify to an interest in direct observation.
