Brief History of Calligraphy Quiz

Monks/Scribes.

• Involves brushstrokes, composition, and pictograms in characters.

• Uses calligraphy as a form of meditation, originating in China.

• Workers in the Medeival monasteries that copied manuscripts in a systematic process.

• Chinese characters are pictograms, resembling drawings of objects.

Carolingian Minuscule.

• Involves brushstrokes, composition, and pictograms in characters.

• Uses calligraphy as a form of meditation, originating in China.

• Standardized writing style developed in monasteries during the reign of Charles the Great.

• Workers in the Medeival monasteries that copied manuscripts in a systematic process.

Edward Johnston.

• Involves brushstrokes, composition, and pictograms in characters.

• Revived calligraphy in the early 20th century, known for the London Underground typeface.

• Arabic scripts like Kufic or Maghrebi applied to various mediums for art and everyday life.

• Uses calligraphy as a form of meditation, originating in China.

Printing Press.

• Involves brushstrokes, composition, and pictograms in characters.

• Uses calligraphy as a form of meditation, originating in China.

• Arabic scripts like Kufic or Maghrebi applied to various mediums for art and everyday life.

• Invented by Johannes Gutenberg.

Copperplate Calligraphy.

• Involves brushstrokes, composition, and pictograms in characters.

• Uses calligraphy as a form of meditation, originating in China.

• Style used for legal and financial documents in the 17th and 18th centuries.

• Chinese characters are pictograms, resembling drawings of objects.

Chinese Calligraphy.

• Involves brushstrokes, composition, and pictograms in characters.

• Uses calligraphy as a form of meditation, originating in China.

• Arabic scripts like Kufic or Maghrebi applied to various mediums for art and everyday life.

• Standardized writing style developed in monasteries during the reign of Charles the Great.

Visual Roots of Chinese Characters.

• Involves brushstrokes, composition, and pictograms in characters.

• Uses calligraphy as a form of meditation, originating in China.

• Arabic scripts like Kufic or Maghrebi applied to various mediums for art and everyday life.

• Chinese characters are pictograms, resembling drawings of objects.

Emperor Ming of Han.

• Involves brushstrokes, composition, and pictograms in characters.

• Requested ten characters from his dying cousin to remain connected beyond death.

• Arabic scripts like Kufic or Maghrebi applied to various mediums for art and everyday life.

• Uses calligraphy as a form of meditation, originating in China.

Islamic Calligraphy.

• Involves brushstrokes, composition, and pictograms in characters.

• Uses calligraphy as a form of meditation, originating in China.

• Arabic scripts like Kufic or Maghrebi applied to various mediums for art and everyday life.

• Chinese characters are pictograms, resembling drawings of objects.

Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts.

• Involves brushstrokes, composition, and pictograms in characters.

• Uses calligraphy as a form of meditation, originating in China.

• Arabic scripts like Kufic or Maghrebi applied to various mediums for art and everyday life.

• From the Middle Ages using very decorative, hand-made calligraphy and filled with writings of the Bible.