The glass is provided with a hinged protector of ruby cloth, which may be closed as soon as the exposure is completed, and the illuminator then becomes a perfect lamp for the developing and subsequent operations with the enlargement.
The illuminator is collapsible, but when set up, has the form of a half-round, light-proof box with socket through which is inserted an electric light bulb.
The mode of wearing the stockings and the cross bar below the leaf-shaped head of one spear tends to the belief that the illuminator was of Saxon blood or depicting others of that descent.
Presuming that the illuminator has not allowed his imagination to run riot we must admire the highly ornamental form there delineated, evidently founded upon the universal circular shield of the Teutonic nations.
So that the ancient crafts of the scribe and illuminator may be said to have again come to life, and this, taken in connection with the revival of printing as an art, is an interesting and significant fact.
There is no better model in nature for the illuminatorthan a country hedgerow.
He may acquire the art of laying and burnishing gold, and no possible brilliance of effect is denied him--within the limits of his skill as an illuminator (see also pp.
Whall, in this Series, and the illuminator might profit by the suggestion (ibid.
But in the drawing itself the skill of a fine illuminator combines with the fancy of a cunning draughtsman to satisfy an aesthetic taste and appeal to the imagination.
The wonderful effect of the colouring cannot be given here, but, in any case, the illuminator should look at some original MSS.
And it is in every way desirable that, until he has become a Master Limner, the Writer and Illuminator should strictly limit the number of his colours (see p.
Likewise Nusku is a solar deity: Strong fire god who surveys the tops of the mountains, Mighty fire god, illuminator of the darkness.
Shining Fire God, who surveys the tops of the mountains Mighty Fire God, illuminator of the darkness.
It was early morning, for the illuminator was at work betimes.
Soothly, that wis I not," said the illuminator rather drily.
The illuminator laid his pen down, and looked up at the lad.
Evidently the illuminator did not mean to commit himself.
The illuminator was taken by surprise the next instant, and the curve of the griffin's tail then pending was by no means round in consequence.
A splendidly illuminated atlas by an illuminator and cartographer named Fernando Vas Dourado was published in the year of his death, 1571.
An illuminator of the name of Jehan Poyet is said to have assisted in the "Hours," thus while Bourdichon painted the miniatures, Poyet put in the flowers and fruit, etc.
The city, whether Ghent or Bagdad, would consist of the same sort of houses peaked and parapeted, the same towers and pinnacles that the illuminator saw before him in his daily walks.
A better model for the modern illuminator could not easily be found.
Didot strongly urged the probability that Cousin was himself the illuminator of the splendid Breviary or Hours of Claude Gouffier.
But in the fifteenth century the art of the writer and that of the illuminator had long been separate professions.
In the twelfth century when, as far as we know, the word illuminator was first applied to one who practised the art of book decoration, it meant one who "lighted up" the page of the book with bright colours and burnished gold.
The first three miniatures are by the illuminatorof the Duc de Berry, and this artist was probably Andrieu Beauneveu, though other illuminators did work for him, as Jacques de Hesdin and Pol de Limbourg.
But where Warrington had been was only the crumpled wreckage of a steeloid desk, the shattered bulk of the illuminator upon it, and, beneath, the mangled remains where flowing blood made a quick pool upon the polished floor.
A nitron illuminator flashed brilliantly upon shining levers--emergency controls that they hoped they would not have to use.
The decoration used by the mediæval artist was practically all based on natural forms, and some of the best advice that can be given to the modern illuminator is that he should study nature.
A little simple decoration might be added in colour, and the modern illuminator ought to be able to produce these quite quickly, and therefore cheaply.
One would hesitate to recommend the one without the other, as the general tendency of the illuminator who neglects nature study, going to ancient examples only, is to produce weak imitations of mediæval work.
The study of the best work that the mediæval artists have produced, combined with plenty of study from nature, is, without doubt, the finest training that the modern illuminator could possibly have.
There is plenty of scope for the illuminator in this direction.
Without a doubt the best colours for the illuminator to use are powder colours.
Therefore the thing for the modern illuminator to do is not to imitate either ancient or modern artists, but simply seek to do his best, giving the best workmanship that he is capable of.
In the old illustrations that we have representing the mediæval illuminator at work, he is always depicted as writing at a sloping desk.
Husenbeth, are books that are most useful to the illuminator when doing work that is ecclesiastical in character.
It ought to be possible for the illuminator to make some very charming little volumes in this manner.
At the end of the book the illuminator may add his colophon, stating that the illumination in the book was executed by himself, and giving the date of its completion and other interesting details.
Roman lettering is, without doubt, the most useful form of lettering for general inscriptions, and it is necessary that the modern illuminator should be familiar with the beautiful forms of this style of lettering.
The initial B at the commencement of the Psalms was a favourite subject with the illuminator at this time.
Apart from designing for publishers, theilluminator ought to be able to produce a series of hand-written Christmas cards.
Khirud Ufroz,” the Illuminatorof the Understanding.
An illuminator of missals and an illuminator of statues, as well as a painter of pictures, perhaps, as Mr. Weale has recently suggested, he made his first studies at Maestricht or at Cologne and afterwards travelled in Spain and in Italy.
He seems, like his master John van Eyck, to have been a man of many parts; we have already seen him colouring statues, he was also an illuminator of manuscripts.
Ludovico di Cherio, a famous illuminator of the fifteenth century, has this note at the end of a book upon which he had long been engaged: "Completed on the vigil of the nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, on an empty stomach.
Lecoy de la Marche tells us that the first recorded name of an illuminator is that of a woman--Lala de Cizique, a Greek, who painted on ivory and on parchment in Rome during the first Christian century.
A celebrated and famous illuminator at the same time as Fra Giovanni was one Attavante, a Florentine, of whom I know no other name.
Zanobi, on which Domenico had begun to work in mosaic in company with the illuminator Gherardo.
It is true, indeed, that in making these he was assisted by an elder brother, who was likewise an illuminator and well practised in painting.
The figures you will have to reserve for the last book on shadows that they may appear in the study of Gerardo the illuminator at San Marco at Florence.
Footnote 5: For the same reason a window thus constructed would be convenient for an illuminator or a miniature painter.
As Mr. Duff has pointed out, in some sheets of this Bible itself the red initial letters are printed and the outline of the blue ones impressed in blank for the guidance of the illuminator in filling them in.
We should rather regard the engraving as a labour-saving device employed by some master illuminator to whom private purchasers sent the books they had purchased from the De Spiras or Jenson for decoration.
Then the boys peered around them, Jerry holding the tallow illuminatorabove his head.
Jerry crept forward and soon had the big illuminator kindled.
Fra Angelico is said to have begun his artistic career as an illuminator of manuscripts--a tradition which is entirely in accordance with the style of his later works.
Girolamo inherited his surname ("of the books") from the occupation of his father, who was an illuminator of manuscripts.
My name is Tapati and I am the younger sister of Savitri, and the daughter, O bull amongst Kshatriyas of Savitri, of (Sun) the illuminator of the universe.
Thus speaking unto the daughter of Kuntibhoja, the illustrious Tapana--the illuminator of the universe--gratified his wish.
The experienced illuminator will generally do his writing before he gets in the outline of his ornament, and he will frequently dispense with the transferring process altogether; but it would be by no means safe for a beginner to do so.
By adopting this method of working, with care and neatness of hand, very agreeable results may be obtained, without its being indispensable for the illuminator to be a skilful draughtsman.
It may not be amiss, also, for the illuminator to remember, that not unfrequently "a verse may find him whom a sermon flies.
The sun is the heater andilluminator of our whole solar system.
The Bible is to the order what the sun is to the material universe--its illuminator and vivifier, even as it also is the, guide to faith and practice.
Printing seems to have superseded the art of the illuminator more promptly and completely in England than on the Continent.
But besides these late-written books, in the first years of printing, the rubricator was generally, and the illuminator not seldom, employed on printed books themselves.
Yet the scribe, the rubricator, and the illuminatordied hard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "illuminator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: candle; fire; flame; glim; illuminant; lamp; lantern; light; luminary; match; moon; star; sun; taper; torch
