{"id":10913,"date":"2026-04-09T18:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/?p=10913"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:03:45","slug":"in-the-beginning-was-the-initial-a-temporary-exhibition-at-the-tyniec-abbey-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/en\/in-the-beginning-was-the-initial-a-temporary-exhibition-at-the-tyniec-abbey-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIn the Beginning Was the Initial\u201d \u2013 a temporary exhibition at the Tyniec Abbey Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibition of facsimiles of pages from illuminated manuscripts at the Tyniec Abbey Museum 2025\/2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition explores the extraordinary world of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, which captivated audiences not only with their content but also with their exquisite craftsmanship. Although only a small fraction of them has survived to the present day, the richness of their decoration, and especially their initials, still inspires admiration. Initially, the first letter of a sentence or paragraph, displayed modestly as slightly larger or highlighted in colour, served primarily to organise the layout of the page. Over time, however, the creators of these books gave free rein to their imagination: illuminators began to experiment with form, gradually enlarging the initial and adding various decorative elements. The individual components of the first letter were transformed into freely painted floral, zoomorphic or geometric motifs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition attempts to showcase the richness and diversity of manuscript decoration over the centuries. On display are life-size copies of entire pages featuring the original painted compositions. This allows visitors not only to see the context in which the initial was placed, but also to appreciate the scribes and illuminators responsible for decorating the codices. Each initial bears the mark of its individual creator, but also the stylistic characteristics of the era in which it was created. No two initials are identical. The manuscripts preserved to this day are the finest testimony to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The works were created by craftspeople and students associated with Barbara Bodziona\u2019s workshop, where medieval illumination techniques have been passionately recreated for the past 18 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition is accompanied by a virtual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundacjamanuskrypt.pl\/inicjal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">catalogue<\/a>, in which you will find a catalogue entry for each manuscript from which the pages are presented, as well as a transcription of the text along with its translation. An initial was always closely linked to the text for which it was designed. Knowledge of the context gives us a full picture and an understanding of its role on the manuscript page, which often goes far beyond mere graphic embellishment of the composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition of facsimiles of pages from illuminated manuscripts at the Tyniec Abbey Museum 2025\/2026. The exhibition explores the extraordinary world of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, which captivated audiences not only with their content but also with their exquisite craftsmanship. Although only a small fraction of them has survived to the present day, the richness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"project-page.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projekty-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10913"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10917,"href":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions\/10917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbarabodziony.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}