The Most Delicate Art


	The Most Delicate Art
JohnWaterman
9-5-2008 5:26 AM
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9-5-2008 5:29 AM
JohnWaterman
For those who like calligraphy there's some nice work here
9-5-2008 7:02 AM
silvanaraihane
I have always loved calligraphy and envy those that can do such art
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e6f19549-446a-4a51-87c3-ae3807966fc6/913C130C-DF37-47E2-BA95-ACFE2352AB50/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/foldertree/muestra_imagen.asp?strFileUrl=http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/temp/860429851_55.jpg&width=630&height=901&actualizaMarco=2&ventanaY=undefined" href="http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/foldertree/muestra_imagen.asp?strFileUrl=http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/temp/860429851_55.jpg&width=630&height=901&actualizaMarco=2&ventanaY=undefined" style="font-size: 11px;">alfama.sim.ucm.es</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/foldertree/muestra_imagen.asp?strFileUrl=http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/temp/860429851_55.jpg&width=630&height=901&actualizaMarco=2&ventanaY=undefined"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/alfama.sim.ucm.es/img/94D40E42-7A19-4463-8544-DA25E524F1AC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/09/most-delicate-art.html" href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/09/most-delicate-art.html" style="font-size: 11px;">bibliodyssey.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/09/most-delicate-art.html"><DIV><SPAN>'Arte Subtilissima, por la Qual se Enseña a Escreuir Perfectamente'</SPAN> (The most delicate art of teaching a perfect hand), 1550 by Juan de Icíar (Juan de Yciar) with <SMALL>(?wood)</SMALL> engravings by Jean de Vingles from Lyon is <A href="http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/consulta_libro.asp?ref=b23597057">available online from Biblioteca Complutense at the University of Madrid</A>. [click on <SPAN>'Láminas'</SPAN> in the margin for links to the illustrated pages]</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/09/most-delicate-art.html">Juan de Yciar was the first in Spain to publish a copybook, the Recopilacion subtilissima (1548; “Most Delicate Compilation”). Two years later he published his Arte Subtilissima (1550; “The Most Delicate Art”)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/09/most-delicate-art.html"> Basque painter and mathematician and the most important calligrapher of the Spanish Renaissance</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/09/most-delicate-art.html"><BLOCKQUOTE>"There are some letters so unforthcoming that they refuse to enter into any sort of friendship or conversation with others" [..]<BR />"other letters are naturally amiable and of good concord and do not deny their intimacy to any other letter".</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/09/most-delicate-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/147BD5EE-6F04-4B15-846D-A4C2000055A1" alt="Arte subtilissima d" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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