I'd love a set of annotations of the inspirations for each illumination. Medieval illuminations are heavily coded and full of allusions that would go over my head.
I like to think that I put a lot of ~~craftmanship~~ into my code, but the effort put into every single letter of a roughly fifteen-thousand-word book (to say nothing of the letter at the beginning of the chapters or the illustrations) is on another level.
How elaborate or precious can it be, if this costs about the same as a typical mass-produced Bible?
EDIT: That's not meant to be dismissive of it. It looks like a very beautifut book, and I'll probably buy one.
She also did an illuminated psalter in French, that one is available by special order only it seems: https://www.calligrafee.com/en/illuminated-psalter/
Religious scriptures for sale feels really weird on HN either way.
Its a beautiful and modern interpretation of how an illuminated work would be done today. Even has Jesus wearing jeans.
Each bible is commissioned and done by hand, so a bit more than a $35 book the link is referring to.
I was in LA and wanted to visit the Getty to just see the building, when we found out that there was an exhibit on illuminated manuscripts. I spent an hour looking at the archicture and the rest of the time looking at the entire exhibit, until the staff insisted that we must leave. Sorry. I absolutely lost all track of time.
brudgers•2d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Genesis_(comic)
o11c•6h ago
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o11c•1h ago
But it's important to remember that practically all Jewish scholarship as we know it came into being as an explicit refutation of Christianity, and was a fairly radical shift compared to what records we have prior to that. Regardless, "sin" is a major theme of the book no matter how you look at it.
ivape•5h ago
ForOldHack•2h ago