Sunday, 14 June 2020

More Gold - 2 Illumined Manuscripts

This is an illustration to the popular Middle French poem the Roman de la Rose 


The illuminator has restrained the gold to the background to emphasize the foreground blues and reds.

Western European artists were not the only people using gold though!


Here's an example of its use with an Arabic text!

Both cultures may have been inspired by the Byzantines also using gold.


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