Year-long lecture series on “The Age of the Writing Master and the Origins of English Roundhand”
The Society of Scribes presents a year-long lecture series on “The Age of the Writing Master and the Origins of English Roundhand.”
Don’t know your Van de Velde from your Materot? Your Snell from your Shelley?
Join us for a series of 12 monthly lectures with historian and calligrapher
Sybille van Zuylen—creator of the Penna Volans website, an
amazing resource for the study of writing masters and copybooks—as she takes us
on a journey that spans several centuries and delves into the lives and letters
from the Age of the Writing Master.
From Italian Hand to what we know today as Copperplate, Sybille will enlighten
us about an era often overlooked in calligraphy history books, but which gave
rise to the pointed-pen styles we know today.
Spanning several centuries and regions, get to know influential figures such as
Barbedor, Perling, Seddon, Ayres, Tomkins, Jenkins, Bickham, Dunton, Spencer,
and more. If you’ve ever wondered about the calligraphers behind the Universal
Penman and the writing masters who influenced them, this is your opportunity to
become educated and inspired!
Access to live online lectures and recordings are free to Society of Scribes members.
To join, go to https://www.societyofscribes.org/join
The first live session starts on January 30, 2022, at 2 PM Eastern. The recording
will be posted soon after.
For more information, visit https://www.societyofscribes.org/the-age-of-the-writing-master
Comments
-
Tentative program for the 12 monthly lectures (subject to change):
- The Renaissance: development and diffusion of the Cancellarescas.
- The golden age of Dutch calligraphy (1600–1630)
- Development and diffusion of the French “Italienne Batarde”
- The teaching of handwriting in the British Empire, calligraphy before the 18th century.
- Adoption of the Italian and French hands in England for business and trade (1680–1700)
- Setting the standards for a truly “English” round hand
- Engraving the English Round Hand: writing master versus engraver.
- The golden age of the English Round Hand and English copybooks
- Deep dive into the different styles of English Round Hand and how they changed with time
- Beauty versus efficiency: what is handwriting all about?
- Writing in the colonies: the English Round Hand goes to America
- The 19th century and the rise of systems of penmanship
0 -
Note extraneous word space at the end of the URL link above. This one works:
https://www.societyofscribes.org/the-age-of-the-writing-master
0 -
Thanks for the correction, John! That space keeps creeping in!0
Categories
- All Categories
- 40 Introductions
- 3.7K Typeface Design
- 793 Font Technology
- 1K Technique and Theory
- 609 Type Business
- 444 Type Design Critiques
- 536 Type Design Software
- 30 Punchcutting
- 135 Lettering and Calligraphy
- 82 Technique and Theory
- 53 Lettering Critiques
- 478 Typography
- 300 History of Typography
- 113 Education
- 65 Resources
- 494 Announcements
- 79 Events
- 105 Job Postings
- 148 Type Releases
- 161 Miscellaneous News
- 269 About TypeDrawers
- 53 TypeDrawers Announcements
- 116 Suggestions and Bug Reports