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Article: Geofroy Tory's Champ fleury in the context of the renaissance reconstruction of the Roman capital alphabet.(Critical essay)
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- Printing History
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- January 1, 2008
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THE designer of this woodcut [Fig. 1], the Parisian scholar and printer Geofroy Tory, was one in a series of intellectuals and artists who, in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, invented the capital letter as we know it today. He is a link between Italian antiquarians of the fifteenth century, who first revived the antique Roman letterforms based on inscriptions from tombstones and ruined buildings, and the adaptation of those designs as typefaces for letterpress printing, on which he had a substantial, if indirect, influence. (1)
Yet Tory's crowning achievement, an artfully worded and lovingly illustrated linguistic and artistic handbook entitled ...
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... ... former government minister, 81; Professor Howard C. Thomas, Professor of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, London University, 56; Mr Mark Thompson, Director of Television, BBC, 44; Sir Geofroy Tory, former diplomat, 89.
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