THE SPANISH FORGER, RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD -- LARGE HISTORIATED SCENE ON AN ILLUMINATED INITIAL 'D' CUT FROM A 16TH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT CHOIRBOOK ON VELLUM 158 X 150MM. HALF-LENGTH FIGURES OF GOD THE FATHER AND TWO ANGELS SOUNDING THE LAST TRUMP ARE AGAINST A GREY-BLUE BACKGROUND OVERLOOKING 5 MEN AND 3 WOMEN RISING NAKED FROM THEIR TOMBS; THIS SCENE OCCUPIES THE INFILL OF AN ILLUMINATED INITIAL WITH DIVIDED STAVES OF RED AND BLUE WITHIN A SQUARE GROUND OF VIOLET AND RED PENWORK FLOURISHING, ON THE VERSO TEXT IS WRITTEN IN A GOTHIC BOOKHAND IN BLACK INK BETWEEN MUSIC OF SQUARE NOTATION ON A 5-LINE STAVE OF RED, SOME SPOTTING AND RUBBING (MAYBE DELIBERATE), WINDOW MOUNTED ON CARD. THIS INITIAL WAS PAINTED BY THE INTRIGUING FIGURE KNOWN AS THE SPANISH FORGER, THE SUBJECT OF W. VOELKLE, THE SPANISH FORGER (NEW YORK, 1978) AND AN EXHIBITION AT THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY IN 1991, THE SPANISH FORGER, A MASTER OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEDIEVALISM . THE PRESENT INITIAL APPRENTLY COMES FROM THE SAME CHOIRBOOK, OR SERIES OF CHOIRBOOKS, MADE IN SEVILLE C. 1500, AS THE SECTION OF THE GRADUAL IN THE COLLECTION OF PAUL KAPP, HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, THE SPANISH FORGER (1978) PP. 33-5, FIGS. 60 AND 64-91.
THE SPANISH FORGER, RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD -- LARGE HISTORIATED SCENE ON AN ILLUMINATED INITIAL 'D' CUT FROM A 16TH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT CHOIRBOOK ON VELLUM 158 X 150MM. HALF-LENGTH FIGURES OF GOD THE FATHER AND TWO ANGELS SOUNDING THE LAST TRUMP ARE AGAINST A GREY-BLUE BACKGROUND OVERLOOKING 5 MEN AND 3 WOMEN RISING NAKED FROM THEIR TOMBS; THIS SCENE OCCUPIES THE INFILL OF AN ILLUMINATED INITIAL WITH DIVIDED STAVES OF RED AND BLUE WITHIN A SQUARE GROUND OF VIOLET AND RED PENWORK FLOURISHING, ON THE VERSO TEXT IS WRITTEN IN A GOTHIC BOOKHAND IN BLACK INK BETWEEN MUSIC OF SQUARE NOTATION ON A 5-LINE STAVE OF RED, SOME SPOTTING AND RUBBING (MAYBE DELIBERATE), WINDOW MOUNTED ON CARD. THIS INITIAL WAS PAINTED BY THE INTRIGUING FIGURE KNOWN AS THE SPANISH FORGER, THE SUBJECT OF W. VOELKLE, THE SPANISH FORGER (NEW YORK, 1978) AND AN EXHIBITION AT THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY IN 1991, THE SPANISH FORGER, A MASTER OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEDIEVALISM . THE PRESENT INITIAL APPRENTLY COMES FROM THE SAME CHOIRBOOK, OR SERIES OF CHOIRBOOKS, MADE IN SEVILLE C. 1500, AS THE SECTION OF THE GRADUAL IN THE COLLECTION OF PAUL KAPP, HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, THE SPANISH FORGER (1978) PP. 33-5, FIGS. 60 AND 64-91.
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