HUMN220FA14

The course home site for HUMN220 01 + 02 at CSU Chico

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In the days before paint chips, manufacturers of paint made sample books like the one above to advertise the variety of tints and hues available to artists. Today, these books are helpful sources of information to conservators on identifying artists’ materials.

Page through the digitized copy of Specimen tints of Winsor & Newton’s artists’ oil and water colours here.

#MaterialWorld: Staff that curate and provide access to the Conservation Collection will share books from the collection and why they are valuable to the conservation field.

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3,500 stunning images from key manuscripts of the 8th to 15th centuries cast light on regional art and culture across Britain and Ireland.

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List of manuscripts by number of illustrations

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With more than 900 illuminated manuscripts, 1,250 of the first printed books (ca. 1455 - 1500), and an important collection of post-1500 deluxe editions, this extraordinary collection chronicles the art of the book over more than 1,000 years. The collection is from all over the world, and from ancient to modern times. It features deluxe Gospel books from Armenia, Ethiopia, Byzantium, and Ottonian Germany, French and Flemish books of hours, as well as masterpieces of Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman manuscript illumination. It also includes important first printed editions of ancient texts by great thinkers such as Aristotle and Euclid, diaries written by Napoleon and intricate bindings crafted by Tiffany. The early printed book collection highlights the experimental nature of the first attempts at printing. Some of these books have been illuminated by hand, and many are unique objects.

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What law of God have I broken?

-Antigone, Antigone (Sophocles)

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He that breaches the law or does it violence or thinks to dictate to those who govern him shall never have my good word. The man the city sets up in authority must be obeyed in small things and in just but also in their opposites. -Creon, Antigone (Sophocles)

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Imagining cities. Gotta have a strong city wall! #humn220

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Imagining cities. #sparkscity #humn220

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Imagining cities requires coffee. #anchorhold #humn220

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Imagining cities. #humn220

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Quhat have I gilt, to faille My fredome in this warld and my plesance?

James I, The Kingis Quair