Brief Introduction
This course is designed to equip learners with various methods of creating an illuminated manuscript. Learners will receive opportunities to improve their theoretical and practical knowledge of manuscript illumination, resulting in creating an illuminated manuscript for this course.
Description
Manuscript illumination, which has been emerged with abstract and naturalistic features, is considered a national art in Afghanistan. In addition to being used for various purposes, it has been mainly used for decoration of religious, scholarly, and historical manuscripts.The content of this course addresses two main objectives: (a) contemporary manuscript illumination of Herat—focusing on principles of Herat Timurid School of Art (b) contemporary manuscript illumination of Herat in accordance to the contemporary manuscript illumination structures and forms of Herat. This is an introductory course to manuscript illuminations. Those who are interested in art can take this course; they are not required to be art majors.
This course will be taught by Professor Ahmad Shoaib Saljoqi, who has designed and decorated hundreds of illuminated manuscripts.
Knowledge
- Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:Â
- prepare paper background for manuscript illumination;Â
- sketch manuscript illumination patterns;
- decorate the elements of manuscript illumination for a particular pattern, having various rhythms;Â
- apply gold leaf on papers in manuscript illumination;
- color papers in manuscript illumination;
- provoke and accentuate patterns of an illuminated manuscript.
Contemporary Manuscript Illumination of Herat
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This course is designed to equip learners with various methods of creating an illuminated manuscript. This is an introductory course to manuscript illuminations....
