illuminated manuscript

基本解释

Still lifes were painted in ancient Greece and Rome. In the Middle Ages they occur in the borders of illuminated manuscripts. The modern still life emerged as an independent genre in the Renaissance.
古希臘和古羅馬就開始有靜物畫，中世紀出現於燈光照明後的文稿邊緣，文藝複興時期成爲獨立的繪畫形式。

Indeed, after the advent of printing, illuminated manuscripts increased their cachet as hand-made luxury items for the elite.
ECONOMIST: Flemish manuscript painting
Illuminated manuscripts provided the ideal portable art form for a peripatetic court that moved regularly from its base in Dijon up through the Low Countries it had absorbed by marriage and conquest in the late 14th century.
ECONOMIST: Flemish manuscript painting
In addition to using the living system as artwork, Brown made a series of images with a scanning electron microscope, and using the techniques to create illuminated manuscripts, he applied gold leaf to the regions of the prints where the bacterial gold deposits were found.
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