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Bernard Maisner: “The Art of the Illuminator”
March 27, 1999
Bernard Maisner, considered one of today's foremost practitioners of the art of illuminating manuscripts, gives a lecture and presentation on the materials and techniques of illumination. Maisner’s talk is given in conjunction with the MOCRA exhibition Bernard Maisner: Entrance to the Scriptorium.
MOCRA thanks Washington University School of Art, and the Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, for their assistance in making this lecture possible.
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Bernard Maisner
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