"The present study examines Lima's miniature painting during the first 50 years ofthe 19th century, a golden period for this discipline. Although the presence of the daguerreotype since 1840 and photography since 1850 meant, due to cost and effectiveness the beginning ofthe inev…
A selection of forty-one pages of the manuscript Mira calligraphiae monumenta, comprising Joris Hoefnagel's illumination of Georg Bocskay's model book of calligraphy, now in the manuscript collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum.
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, city views and topographic miniature paintings became a distinctive feature of luxury manuscript illustration in the Ottoman Empire. These images were part of an architectural vision of the Empire's cites—a vision that was cultivated…
