Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

The importance of a strong yet subtle background cannot be underestimated in manuscript painting. Illustrations in manuscripts often accompany a particular text, or are used to highlight an important ...

Those who have visited it know that the resplendent New York library of financier J. Pierpont Morgan is less a museum than a walkable trove of artistic and cultural riches. Among those riches is a ...

Since the opening of the Getty Center in 1997, many have been disappointed with the faltering pace and erratic commitment of the museum’s acquisitions for its permanent collection. One great work of ...

In 2019, two Persian paintings sold in a private-auction house, in London, for roughly eight hundred thousand pounds each. The paintings were illuminated manuscripts, or “miniature” paintings, and ...

Sylvana Barrett holds up a piece of parchment. Not a clean-cut rectangle ready for artwork or calligraphy but an irregular slab, shaped like an animal pelt. Which is exactly what it is -- the scraped ...

The Botanical Artist is a 36-page 4-color journal published quarterly by the American Society of Botanical Artists, a non-profit organization dedicated to perpetuating the tradition and contemporary ...

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Mask making and manuscript painting of Majuli, an island-district of Assam, have received Geographical Indication (GI) tags, an official statement said on Monday. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, ...