{"product_id":"paperblanks-pink-carnation-ultra-softback-flexi-journal-lined-176-pages-fb9725-9","title":"Paperblanks Pink Carnation Ultra Softback Flexi Journal – Lined, 176 Pages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCapture your ideas, plans and memories in this Pink Carnation ultra softback flexi journal from Paperblanks, with 176 lined pages of 100 gsm acid-free paper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most celebrated manuscript illumination artists was Joris Hoefnagel. In the 1590s the Emperor Rudolf II commissioned Hoefnagel to add his illuminations to the \u003cem\u003eMira calligraphiae monumenta\u003c\/em\u003e, a mid-16th-century manuscript on the art of calligraphy. The page reproduced here is known as \u003cem\u003eDamselfly, Carnation, Insect, Caterpillar, Ladybird, English Walnut, and Marine Mollusk\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Story Behind the Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe art of still life painting is a celebrated part of Dutch culture and a technique for which its artists are among the most prized. But this captivating and time-honoured artistic style didn’t emerge fully formed. Before these artists came to be so celebrated, there were illustrators who delicately illuminated handwritten manuscripts with images of plants, fruits, flowers, animals and insects to add emotional power to a written work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne of the most renowned practitioners of this style of illumination was Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). In the 1590s the Emperor Rudolf II commissioned Hoefnagel to add his illuminations, meant to represent a survey of the natural world, to the \u003cem\u003eMira calligraphiae monumenta.\u003c\/em\u003e The book was a mid-16th-century manuscript on the art of calligraphy by Georg Bocskay, imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. In making his additions, Hoefnagel not only included the usual flora and fauna elements, but enhanced Bocskay’s lettering with hybrid creatures and fanciful masks of the letters the writer had created. In using mediums such as watercolour, gold and silver paint and ink on parchment, Hoefnagel aimed to demonstrate the superior emotional power of images over the simple written word.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The specific piece from the \u003cem\u003eMira\u003c\/em\u003e that we have reproduced here is known as \u003cem\u003eDamselfly, Carnation, Insect, Caterpillar, Ladybird, English Walnut, and Marine Mollusk\u003c\/em\u003e, owing to the abundance of sophisticated flora and fauna so wonderfully illustrated. The scientific naturalism of Hoefnagel’s botanical and animal drawings are what served as a model for future Netherlandish still life artists. Hoefnagel is remembered as being the last important Flemish manuscript illuminator and one of the first artists to work on the new genre of still life. In fact, one of his undated miniature floral pieces is regarded as the first known independent still life image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eMira calligraphiae monumenta\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eModel Book of Calligraphy\u003c\/em\u003e) is celebrated as one of the last important examples of European manuscript illumination. With Bocskay and Hoefnagel, two masters of their field, at work, no one art form rises as superior. Instead, the calligraphy and illumination elevate each other. 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