Hello! I am Faith Hurst and this is my 4th year at RIT. I was considering doing my project on zoos and aquariums, but I took a class on illuminated manuscripts this summer and im really interested in those right now. I'm particularly interested in the materials and inks/colors used when creating the illuminations. I was thinking my topic could be centered around museums research on conservation efforts surrounding illuminated manuscripts or maybe on museum's display and educational methods of illuminated manuscripts. I also thought I could do something relating to the Getty museum's vast manuscript collection.
Hi Faith! Professor David Messinger has a great website that shows what different inks were made of! Its very interesting. Gabriella and Smith and I did a deep dive on Statua Antiqua and the making of it including the different inks. I would encourage you to pick a manuscript or a type of manuscript!
ReplyDeleteFaith, I am excited to see your interest from the summer materializing into a thesis idea. In addition to Eliot's suggestion above, see the MUSE MyCourses for an upcoming event on 10/15 that may be of interest. Also, it might be worthwhile thinking about a particular book or collection as the primary area of your research. Keep going!
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