beginning in the 510s BCE

and the University of Louisville and has published articles on eighteenth-century French painting

Harry Francis Mallgrave is an architectural historian and the translator of several other volumes in the Getty Research Institute's Texts & Documents series

to contemporary encounters with these subjects by such artists as Damien Hirst and Andres Serrano

Manuscript Calligraphy Earrings 3-4 beginning in the 510s BCEThe written word was an art form in the premodern world. Calligraphers filled the pages of manuscripts with scrolling vines and delicate pen flourishes, and illuminators depicted captivating narratives within large letterforms. These intricate pattern earrings celebrate Georg Bocskay's (Hungarian, died 1575) artful script from Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy), a sixteenth century manuscript in the Museum's collection.