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Medieval artists and scribes were among the world’s first graphic designers. Explore the innovative ways these artists worked, and how their ideas carry over into modern design.
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.
29 sie 2023 · Graphic Design in the Middle Ages. August 29, 2023 to January 28, 2024 The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center. 1. Unknown Italian. Decorated Initial P, late 1100s New Testament Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment Leaf: 24.6 × 16.2 cm (9 11/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
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 · From layout to script to images, a wide variety of different design elements influenced how medieval books were read and interpreted. This exhibition explores the role of page design, text, and ornament in the organization of books to surprise, delight, and inform their viewers.
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.
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.
