Text and Design

Text and Design

TEXT FROM THE BOOK OF HOURS OF JEAN DE BERRY

Using letters, flowers, and geometric motifs, monks in secluded monasteries decorated pages of Scripture and other writings with infinite detail. Some pages of these manuscripts have figures and narrative decoration while others are simply words with no illustrations. Amid the abstract and geometric art of the time, the monks kept figurative drawing and painting alive by creating miniatures on small pages. [MH] {NR}