This is the opening poem of The Flowers Of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.
Hence the flourishing decoration, made of flowers, and the color choice, black & red.
In case you like this script, there’s an ongoing online course on the subejct, you can check it at : https://www.thegentlepenman.com/frenchgothicbastarda
Next (and probably last for this year) online course in French on filigrees, the golf club version, will take place next weekend, 4 & 5th of February
Information & registration on the French version of the agenda
Next year (that is to say very soon now), I will teach filigrees online again.
Filigrees, a manuscript approach is a 4 hours course (2×2 hours) where I will talk about different filigree patterns from several manuscripts.
This new versal shows examples of some of these patterns.
The course (in English) will take place on January 14 and 15, from 6 to 8 PM, French time.
It will be taught via zoom and the recording will be available for one month after the live.
The cost of the course is 60€.
You can register by clicking on this link.
I am making progress on my materials for the course on 12th century initials and filigrees that will take place next April.
But, of course, nothing beats creating to put into practice the elements found in the manuscripts. So here is a small piece of a work in progress.
Yes, it’s green (sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone), soon a complete view of this composition and, in the meantime, you can already register for the course at the Arche de Saint-Antoine.
I am very happy to have been asked by IAMPETH for the second year in a row to participate to IAMPETH Virtual, a set of 12 one-hour demos, online and in English with 12 professionals from all over the world.
I’ll be talking (again) about filigrees but this time about a rather special pattern, spirals!!!
It looks like a movie title, the umpteenth of a too long series when the writers have lost all inspiration and the producers are pressing for a last opus in order to make the license a little more profitable.
No such mercantile practices here!
I propose you a course :
– in person, because it is time to get back to meeting people in real life
– in Isère (France), in this wonderful little medieval village of Saint-Antoine l’Abbaye, at the Arche community which will provide full board accommodation
– in April 2023 (from 21 to 23) to celebrate Anselm, Abdiesus and George
– in English and French so that everyone can enjoy it
– in pairs because Cecilia Boschi will propose a course of Italian bastarda at the same place and at the same time
We will take advantage of this conjunction to offer you shared moments of demonstrations, conferences, exchanges…
But I haven’t told you what I’m going to talk about yet, have I?
Oh well, no.
So the subject will be the initials and filigrees of the 12th century, we are at the end of the Romanesque period, we feel the Gothic coming but we are still far from it, the colors and forms are still rich and varied.
For more information, you can consult the dedicated page.
Registration is open and can be done on the Arche website.
