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The word Calligraphy is written in elegant blue script with decorative flourishes and a leafy design inside the capital C.
Ornate title page from Sieur de Beaulieu's 1599 calligraphy book, featuring elaborate scrollwork, decorative borders, and allegorical figures around central French text.
Spieghel der Schrijfkonste
Book of Hours
Chapter 49 of the Isaiah Scroll
Hagiographa
Hebrew Ashkenazic script
Syriac language
Early Kūfic book style
Old Ottoman naskhī script
The rich history of Arabic calligraphy
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Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Italian scholar
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Wu Changshuo
Chinese artist
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Dong Qichang
Chinese artist
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Huizong
emperor of Song dynasty
Manuscript copy sheet by Edward Johnston
Edward Johnston
British calligrapher
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Khwāja ʿAbd-uṣ-Ṣamad
Persian painter
Fraktur fonts
Rudolf Koch
German artist
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Ike Taiga
Japanese painter
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Huang Tingjian
Chinese poet and calligrapher
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Wen Zhengming
Chinese artist
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Esther Inglis
Scottish calligrapher
Zhao Mengfu: Twin Pines, Level Distance
Zhao Mengfu
Chinese painter
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Ibn al-Bawwāb
Arab calligrapher
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W.A. Dwiggins
American artist
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Muẓaffar ʿAlī
Persian artist
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Shōkadō Shōjō
Japanese artist
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Qi Baishi
Chinese painter
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Ibn Muqlah
Islamic calligrapher
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Kim Chŏng-hui
Korean calligrapher