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Nicolas Spierinc

Flemish Scribe · 1455–1499

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Nicolas Spierinc was one of the most gifted and audacious of the Flemish scribes and illuminators working in the late 1400s. While creating elegant and extremely legible calligraphy, he often embellished his script with elaborately flourished letters, known as *cadelles*, elongating the descenders or ascenders of the letters into the margin where they seem to take on a life of their own. In 1455 S

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https://data.getty.edu/museum/collection/person/1192b9c8-be71-4e44-91ca-fd7c20522609
Artist/Maker
Nicolas Spierinc
subject_of[Homepage].id
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/10922J
Date
1469
Medium
Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, silver paint, and ink
Culture
Flemish
Object Type
Folio

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Object ID
240df323-1e02-432c-af1b-3393cbcc13eb
Object Type
Folio
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Creator
Nicolas Spierinc
  • Getty Museum field “Artist/Maker” · copied as is
Culture
Flemish
  • Getty Museum field “Culture” · copied as is
Medium
Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, silver paint, and ink
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Department
Manuscripts
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Credit Line
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 37, fol. 20
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Date
1469
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Begin Year
1469
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End Year
1469
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