{"id":7328,"date":"2010-06-17T02:41:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T01:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2012-01-29T17:43:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T17:43:08","slug":"paul-francks-calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/17\/paul-francks-calligraphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Franck&#8217;s calligraphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/franck1.jpg\" alt=\"franck1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the most extravagantly flourished capitals you&#8217;ll see, from another of those books with an unwieldy title, <em>Kunstrichtige Schreibart : allerhand Versalie[n] oder AnfangsBuchstabe[n] der te\u00fctschen, lateinischen und italianischen Schrifften aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen<\/em> (1655). The authors are credited as Paul Franck, Paul F\u00fcrst and Christoph Gerhard but it&#8217;s Franck&#8217;s name I know from a book of type designs, and it was a search for better examples of these letters which led me to the Internet Archive who have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/kunstrichtigesch00fran\" target=\"_blank\">scans of the entire book<\/a>. This is the place where European lettering design approaches the bravura elaborations of Arabic calligraphy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/franck2.jpg\" alt=\"franck2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/06\/gramato-graphices\/\">Gramato-graphices<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/02\/john-bickhams-fables-and-other-short-poems\/\">John Bickham\u2019s Fables and other short poems<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/07\/letters-and-lettering\/\" target=\"_self\">Letters and Lettering<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/10\/16\/studies-in-pen-art\/\" target=\"_self\">Studies in Pen Art<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/10\/flourishes\/\" target=\"_self\">Flourishes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most extravagantly flourished capitals you&#8217;ll see, from another of those books with an unwieldy title, Kunstrichtige Schreibart : allerhand Versalie[n] oder AnfangsBuchstabe[n] der te\u00fctschen, lateinischen und italianischen Schrifften aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen (1655). The authors are credited as Paul Franck, Paul F\u00fcrst and Christoph Gerhard but it&#8217;s Franck&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/17\/paul-francks-calligraphy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paul Franck&#8217;s calligraphy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,42,4,10],"tags":[266,1418],"class_list":["post-7328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-white","category-books","category-design","category-typography","tag-calligraphy","tag-paul-franck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Uc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}