قراءة كتاب Elementary Instruction in The Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting on Vellum A Guide to Modern Illuminators

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Elementary Instruction in The Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting on Vellum A Guide to Modern Illuminators

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Lara D Laurent de

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class="dropcap">IRRESPECTIVE of the honor your Ladyship confers on me, by allowing the privilege of associating your name with this edition, a nobler motive which actuated your generous sanction, viz., "the high interest you feel in the revival of an obsolete but noble art," and of which you are at once its zealous Patroness, and its more than accomplished votary, are claims on my gratitude, which words scarcely can express, even in the hackneyed terms the humble sometimes venture to address to rank!—Appreciating, therefore, deeply the distinction you thus confer on one of your fellow-labourers in art,

Allow me,

Madam,

To remain with profound respect,

Your Ladyship's devoted

and obliged servant,

D. Laurent de Lara.

3, Torrington Square, October, 1863.

	Page.
Preface	7
Preface to the Sixth Edition	9
Introduction	11
On Illumination	17
General Rules	25
On Colours:—Ultramarine Blue—Vermilion—Emerald Green—Cobalt Blue—Purple—Orange Chrome—Chrome Yellow— Carmine, plain and burnt—Hooker's Green—Burnt Sienna— Lamp Black—Middle Tints—Enamel White—Platina and Silver—Green or Yellow Gold—The Agate	30
On the Arrangement of Colours	47
On Composition	52
On Preparing the Vellum	59
On Tracing and Transferring	61
On Raised Gold Ornamentations	64
Conclusion	67
On Outlines	78
List of Colours	82
Plates	83
Appendix	83

TWO years sufficed to exhaust the sixth edition (the first shilling one) of my "Elementary Instruction on Illuminating," in opposition, too, of a rival author; who was, however, more fortunate—for he was enabled to illuminate the world, with seven consecutive editions in as many months, and left the world for two years after in as much darkness as ever.—Far from envying him this inordinate success, I rest secure on my laurels, humble though they be.—Ten years were needed to bring forth my seventh edition, and here it is—as unpretending as ever—but fully understood, and understandable—no new theories erudite in print and bad in practice—no old ones, filched from musty manuscripts, alike impracticable as complicated, and displayed with learning and research, to bolster up repute and attach importance to very questionable utility; wholly unimportant to those who seek information. I address the few and the few only, who will take practical hints, from a practical man, clothed in the plainest English. I do not trade on other men's brains, but endeavour to live by my own. Those who encourage the empiric in art must buy experience, and be contented with their shillings worth.(?) I have added only some additional matter on colours and composition, as applied to illumination, which I hope the public may find useful—in other respects the seventh edition is like its predecessors—a claimant to public favour.

D. L.

THE steady revival of the "Art of Illuminating" during the last few years, and the rapid progress it has made