From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V7 #80 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Friday, February 22 2002 Volume 07 : Number 080 ======================================================================== 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. Re: [scribes]: Utterly Amazing Re: [scribes]: Utterly Amazing [scribes]: Paint mixing problem ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:32:08 -0800 (PST) From: Hillary Greenslade Subject: Re: [scribes]: Utterly Amazing - --- Helen Schultz wrote: > Greetings, and sorry for any cross posting, but I just got a new book > today and > I found something that is utterly amazing in it. The book is "Exemplum, > Model-Book Drawings and the Practice of Artistic Transmission in the > Middle Ages > (ca. 900 - 1450)," by Robert W. Scheller. Published by the Amsterdam > University > Press, 1995. (ISBN: 90-5356-130-7). Definately a great book! This was my Xmas present to myself, received before Xmas, from Barnes & Nobles as well, and have been reading it since. Very scholarly, the pages are of a thinner paper, so it's really packed with information. I'm writing from work, so I don't recall there being any color photos sadly, mostly lots of B&W drawings, primarily showing the sketches and modeling techniques used. But, they are amazing, and of many works we in the US have not seen before. I found it on the Amsterdam Press website, but the price was in the local money (EUR 81,75 / Fl. 180,15). A co-worker from Denmark said it would probably cost less on the money conversion to dollars, but the shipping would most likely bring it up to the same price the US sources were charging. But, some of you could try. I just decided not to bother with dealing with the conversion/shipping, so bought it in the states. This book will be one to join the Gottingen Model book, as a must have for the serious illuminator student. And it's currently in-print!! Save your pennies! Hillary Greenslade Stargate, Ansteorra hillaryrg@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com =================================================================== 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. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:59:21 -0500 From: "Helen Schultz" Subject: Re: [scribes]: Utterly Amazing Hillary Greenslade said: "I'm writing from work, so I don't recall there being any color > photos sadly, mostly lots of B&W drawings, primarily showing the sketches > and modeling techniques used. But, they are amazing, and of many works we > in the US have not seen before." There are a few color plates in the book, mostly at the beginning, but I think a couple more about middle. At first I was a bit distressed that I paid so much for a book with so little color pictures in it, but the information is well worth it. Gives me some great ideas... now to figure out how to make myself take the initiative and doing something about those ideas!! Meisterin Katarina Helene von Schoenborn (KHvS), OL Shire of Narrental (Peru, Indiana) Middle Kingdom http://ww1.comteck.com/~meisterin =================================================================== 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. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:52:35 -0500 From: "Jessica Wilbur" Subject: [scribes]: Paint mixing problem Greetings! Has anyone ever had a problem with powdered pigment refusing to mix with a binder? I was playing with my period pigments for the first time last night and had no problem with the ultramarine or the veridian... but couldn't get the alizarin lake to mix. It was the weirdest thing. I tried with glair, gum arabic and a mixture of both. It was like trying to mix oil and water. I finally gave up on it, but I'd really like to know what went wrong and how to fix it. Any advice? Thanks! - --Giuliana Salviati (formerly Muireann ni Riordain) =================================================================== 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 V7 #80 ****************************