The Perfect Page

Name: The Perfect Page
Price: 160 AUD
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$160.00

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A young calf, drawn on paper — although centuries ago, the calf might have been the page. Vellum, traditionally made from carefully prepared calfskin, provided the surface for some of history's most beautiful manuscripts, drawings and paintings.

The Perfect Page is part of my Beautiful Things We’ve Killed for Art series, exploring the animals behind materials used to make art.

Nerd notes

Making a large medieval book could require the skins of hundreds of animals. A single skin produced only a limited number of pages, so an ambitious manuscript represented a sizeable herd before anyone picked up a pen.

And sometimes the animal left its mark. Medieval manuscripts survive with holes, scars, hair follicles and other imperfections in their pages. Scribes and illuminators occasionally worked around them or incorporated them into what they were creating.

Details

Handmade, one-of-a-kind artwork

Unframed

A4 — 21 × 29.7 cm (8.3 × 11.7 in)

Mixed media collage on paper

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be unused and in their original condition;
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The Perfect Page

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