Lettering in Fifteenth Century Florentine Painting
Dario A. Covi
This paper attempts to deal with lettering as art history.1 With a few—both understandable and significant—exceptions, it focuses upon the letter forms employed by fifteenth century Florentine painters in their paintings. Its point of departure is well-known fact that during Gothic style late Middle Ages was gradually made yield two other styles lettering, roman capitals new script called humanistica.
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