Sat Aug 4, 2018 11:47 PM

Morning Modelbuch (4/23/2018)

This one is two (or 3) for the price of one. I couldn’t pick a favorite and that is the the nature of the book.) Pietro Tozzi’s 1604 _Ghirlende di sei uaghi fiori scielti de piu famosi giardini d’Italia_ has frames made up of lace patterns filled with calligraphy examples by Antonello Berdozi and Sebastiano Zanella.

One of the first scrolls I ever did for the SCA was done with the text inside a lace border chosen from a Modelbuch (before I found this book.) Once again proving that there aren’t that many new ideas.

These images are from the Getty Museum’s copy of Tozzi available on Archive https://archive.org/details/ghirlandadiseiua00tozz