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About thirty years later Ferdinand's grandson, Emperor Rudolph II, commissioned Joris Hoefnagel to illuminate it, and Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers and insects to nearly every page, composed to balance the lettering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: a page from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy), written by Georg Bocskay in Vienna in 1561–62 and illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel about 1591–96, in watercolours, gold and silver paint and ink on parchment; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoris Hoefnagel (1542–1600) was a Flemish artist, poet and traveller, the last major Flemish manuscript illuminator and one of the first artists to paint still life. Born to a wealthy merchant family, he recorded his travels in topographical drawings later used for a six-volume atlas, and served as court artist first to Albert V, duke of Bavaria, and from 1591 to Emperor Rudolf II. For Rudolf he painted flowers, fruit and insects onto the pages of a calligraphy model book written thirty years earlier by Georg Bocskay, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach print is a giclée, printed to order. Unframed prints are made on Hahnemühle German Etching, a 310gsm matte fine-art paper. Framed prints are printed on 200gsm matte fine-art paper and arrive in a handmade solid-wood frame with low-reflection glazing, ready to hang. 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