Left Side of an Illuminated Double-page Frontispiece
This folio from Walters manuscript W.580 is the left side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece of geometric design in gold, red, blue, and green, with a marginal rosette at the left.
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Details
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Date
- 18th century
- Holding institution
- Walters Art Museum
- Palette
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- Image provider
- wikimedia-commons
- License
- Public domain
- Credit
- Walters Art Museum
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Visual Qualities
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Geometric Both · 99%
The catalog describes a geometric design, and the image shows repeated interlocking angular and curvilinear motifs organized within nested rectangular borders.
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Patterns Visual · 99%
Repeated ornamental units fill the central field and recur in the upper, lower, and outer border bands.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 98%
The decorated area is highly detailed and densely covered with interlaced ornament, patterned borders, and repeated floral-like compartments.
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Bright and Vivid Colors Both · 94%
The catalog specifies gold, red, blue, and green decoration, all of which are visibly present in the illuminated design.
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Symmetrical Visual · 88%
The central framed field and repeated upper and lower bands create a strongly regular, balanced structure, although the marginal rosette makes the full page composition asymmetrical.
Medium and Techniques
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Manuscript Metadata · 99%
The Walters catalog classifies the object as manuscript or decorative art and identifies it as a folio from an illuminated double-page frontispiece.
Time Periods
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18th Century Art Metadata · 98%
The catalog dates the folio to the 18th century.
Materials
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Gold Metadata · 92%
The catalog description explicitly identifies gold as one of the materials or colors used in the illumination.
Source & rights
Abu al-Fadl 'Iyad ibn Musá al-Yahsubi al-Bahili (died 544 AH/AD 1149). Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 1,278 × 1,800 · Wikimedia Commons · Availability not yet probed