MARCH 2022 - B

 MARCH 2022 - B

Easter is coming soon and I have no organised theme ... YET so I'm just shamelessly uploading files form my collection ... enjoy the beautiful details might though be said to be a theme of my blog posts ?

MARCH 2022 - A

 MARCH 2022 

Its Spring in Europe and also the month of the Announciation of the Virgin Mary which gives me an excuse to reshare this beautiful page .

Such a northern spring but so beautiful in detail color and composition.

February - Illuminated Calendar Page

 

Here's one last illuminated calendar page for February 

Compare it to the one I showed you previously for differences in script font layout and technique.

FEBRUARY - Da Costa Hours

 This is a page from a book created by Simon Bening's  studio showing February activities like pruning branches and vines and turning soil.

possibly the river in the background is the Rhine or a tributary ?

February - an Illuminated Manuscript page

 Before we had wall calendars those who could afford them had  brevaries 

A popular page layout was a list of major observances and saints for a month with a picture at the bottom 

You can see a monk perhaps the scribe or illuminator warming himself by a fire !

I suspect the blank lines were to allow the purchasers to add more saints in or other notes at a later time  as there are more saints and observances in February than those listed?

Or perhaps the patron asked to only have his favorites shown?

Fantastic Adventures _ RETRO SF ART

FANTASTIC ADVENTURES 

#retro #coverart #retrosf #sfillustration #tiger #fonts #layout 

 I was looking for art featuring tigers when I found this piece of retro cover art.

Its a good example of retro layout and fonts !

the ship of ishtar

This retro 60s style cover uses a style of kimited colors and bold  contrasts perfect if you consider the small sizes of these paperback covers