Italic Script with a Brush Pen

Overview

“I love to know the origin of the letter, where it comes from and how so in this lesson I will tell you about it. The history and the bases of the letter and why this letter is so important for our day to day. The benefits of being able to use it, the improvement of our personal handwriting, etc. This calligraphy is also called chancellor and its name comes directly from the fact that its use was exclusively for the Vatican chancellery. However, and due to the simplicity and beauty of its strokes, its use spread to princely secretaries and in the intellectual environments that imitated it and embellished it with arabesques or flourishes. As teachers of the italics we must highlight Palatino, Aldo Manucio and Ludovico Arrighi. Arrighi's work is especially interesting for his treatise La Operina (1522). It is a manual that presents the general rules of the chancellor and teaches you how to do it. It tells us about the importance of the oval, the ascending and descending ones, and emphasizes that the eye is always above geometry. I totally share this idea of Arrighi since on many occasions we do not obsess that all the letters are perfect and in my opinion the calligraphy is quite the opposite, it is gestures and a global vision of the writing. Before finishing this lesson I would also like to name you classical masters such as the Basques Juan Yciar (Arte Subtilísima, 1550) and Pedro Madariaga. In Andalusia we have Francisco Lucas and Pedro Díaz Morante whose works are of the same quality as that of the Italians.”

In this video lesson Bego Viñuela Galarraga addresses the topic: What is italic calligraphy, which is part of the Domestika online course: Italic Script with a Brush Pen. Learn how to master the paintbrush and create letters filled with emotion and style.

Partial transcription of the video

“What is italic calligraphy? I imagine that as a lover of letters, calligraphy you are interested in the history of each letter we will make. So in this lesson I will tell you the history and uses of this type of calligraphy. Italic calligraphy is also called chancellor calligraphy, that name is given because at the beginning it was used in papal chancelleries, but due to the simplicity of its strokes and the beauty of these, its use was extended a little more and in the end it was used in more intellectual environments who imitated those letter shapes by adding them, for example, more decor...”

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Course summary for: Italic Script with a Brush Pen

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