“One of the main motives of artistic creation is certainly the need to feel essential towards the world.” (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Gutenberg Bible
Around the middle of the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg invented letterpress printing with movable type. His largest and most famous work is the 42-line Gutenberg Bible. Two of the world's 49 surviving copies can be admired in the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. The Gutenberg Shop, which is part of the museum, sells reprints of individual pages of the Gutenberg Bible, which are decorated with classical book illumination in addition to the printed text, just as in the original. For this I provide the pages with painted initials, tendrils and real gilding on the leaves. The pages are available in the Gutenberg store in Mainz or on its website: www.gutenberg-shop.de/gutenberg-bibel
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Das Portal Mittelalter Digital hat ein Interview mit mir geführt. Darin erfährst du einiges über die Hintergründe meiner Arbeit als Illuminatorin: https://mittelalter.digital/artikel/farbenpracht-auf-pergament-im-interview-mit-dr-julia-bangert/1
Mehr Bilder und Zeichnungen sowie Einblicke in den Fortschritt meiner aktuellen Arbeit findest du auf meinem Instagram-Profil bookillumination.
The portal Mittelalter Digital has conducted an interview with me. In it you can learn a lot about the background of my work as a book illuminator: https://mittelalter.digital/artikel/farbenpracht-auf-pergament-im-interview-mit-dr-julia-bangert/1
You can find more pictures and drawings as well as insights into the progress of my current work on my instagram profile bookillumination.
