The Filocalian Letter
Nicolete Gray
To the student of Christian archaeology name Filocalus is a household word. The surviving evidence his work has been investigated by most eminent scholars since time Mommsen and de Rossi, and, recently definitive studies both inscriptions, copies lost manuscript have produced. This essay an attempt to see this achievement in wider setting, whole history art lettering. I hope demonstrate that Filocalian lettering not isolated phenomenon, magnificent dead end, but rather extension potentialities which he worked, through centuries further explored various directions, to-day are being worked more than ever before. recapitulate briefly what established: fragmentary knowledge we immediately establishes him as very remarkable. names Roman medieval practitioners known, none do their works give us any clear impression personality. comparable great printers, or such modern artists Rudolf Koch Eric Gill; like them quality originality, case high degree, marks it product conscious artist.
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