Gracienne Taking Leave of Her Father the Sultan (detail), Lieven van Lathem, David Aubert, 1464. J. Paul Getty Museum
Artist at Work: Illuminating the Medieval World
GETTY CENTER
*This event takes place on April 3, May 1, 15, and 29, June 12 and 26, 2016
Museum Studios
Medieval trade routes facilitated an exchange of luxury goods across Asia, Europe and Northern Africa providing artists with both inspiration and exotic raw materials for making pigments, such as indigo, lapis, and eventually cochineal from the Americas. Join artist Sylvana Barrett for an exploration of these precious materials and a demonstration of their use in the illumination of manuscripts. This is a free, drop-in program.
