From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V4 #13 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Tuesday, October 17 2000 Volume 04 : Number 013 ======================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with unsubscribe scribes-digets in the body of the message. Leave the subject line blank. Do not include any additional text. [scribes]: Re: Portraiture ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:24:36 +1000 From: Mark Calderwood Subject: [scribes]: Re: Portraiture At 04:01 PM 10/16/00 -0700, you wrote: >I attended a lecture by Roger Wieck several years ago... >Basically the article is a brief overview of what a book of hours is and how >portrait placement within That's the guy who wrote Painted Prayers, isn't it? (My copy's upstairs at the moment.) That sounds like a very interesting article, when is it being published? >If you're wondering what happened to the illuminators that did not have the >skills to compete with realistic portrait painters .... just in case it comes >up in a game of SCA trivial pursuit :-) Some continued on as illuminators And at least one achieved Living God status as the illuminator of the Mira Monumenta in the 1560's. Giles Lochac =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V4 #13 ****************************