A Spectacular Cadel & Gothic Script

[caliken]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd289/caliken_2007/Cadelincolour600.jpg

[cybaea]

Oh, wow. That is something else. Usually the cadeaux (is that the right plural?) are complex at first sight but on closer inspection relatively simple repeats of a basic form. (Relatively simple if you have a steady and precise hand and a sharp eye, so that rules me out.) But this one is just beautiful.

 

PS: If anybody else need the definition, it is something like "An ornate Gothic capital letter consisting of interlacing pen strokes." This is a useful link: http://colvinism.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/cadel-calligraphy/ which gives us this simple example

 

http://colvinism.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/20130216-140036.jpg

 

Compare this very nice Cadel with the gorgeous splendour of caliken's example!

 

Thank you so much for sharing that one, caliken.

Edited November 5, 2013 by cybaea

[JeffPDX2]

Thanks, cybaea, for the link to the discussion of cadeaux on the Calvinism site. Without it, I would never known the plural for 'cadel'.

 

Does anyone have a suggestion for a book, website, etc that will give instructions on how to construct them?

[caliken]

Thanks, cybaea, for the link to the discussion of cadeaux on the Calvinism site. Without it, I would never known the plural for 'cadel'.

 

Does anyone have a suggestion for a book, website, etc that will give instructions on how to construct them?

Cadels as the plural, is used as often as Cadeaux, so presumably both are considered acceptable.

 

I know of three pages on the construction of cadels in the book "The Art of Calligraphy" by David Harris.

 

I can't thnk of another source, offhand.

 

Ken

[mirosc]

First:

thank you Caliken for this wonderful example!

 

Second:

For the request for more information: If I remember correctly, some German instructional books from the 16th/17th century have been reprinted in the 1980s

 

Johann Hering, Schrift- und Kunstbüchlein

Johann Hering, Kalligraphische Schriftvorlagen

You can take a glimpse of his works online in the Staatsarchiv Bamberg:

http://bvbm1.bib-bvb.de/view/bvbmets/viewer.0.5.jsp?folder_id=0&dvs=1383759606795~571&pid=3041381&usePid1=true&usePid2=true

 

Some examples, you can also see in his books how he develops the cadeaux, but he does not give a formal description:

 

 

 

 

Then there's the work of Rossi (unfortunately without K or V) and a nice alphabet of Giambiattista Palatino (yes, you guessed it, the calligrapher after whom Zapf named his famous font for Linotype)

 

 

plus many more examples. But I don't know of a real, formal training/schoolbook. I don't think there was one, because it's not that complicated to think of, just repeating some few basic patterns. And from those simple patterns the more complicated ones evolve quite naturally. The hard part is a good execution.

[bernardo]

First:

thank you Caliken for this wonderful example!

 

Second:

For the request for more information: If I remember correctly, some German instructional books from the 16th/17th century have been reprinted in the 1980s

 

Johann Hering, Schrift- und Kunstbüchlein

Johann Hering, Kalligraphische Schriftvorlagen

You can take a glimpse of his works online in the Staatsarchiv Bamberg:

http://bvbm1.bib-bvb.de/view/bvbmets/viewer.0.5.jsp?folder_id=0&dvs=1383759606795~571&pid=3041381&usePid1=true&usePid2=true

 

Some examples, you can also see in his books how he develops the cadeaux, but he does not give a formal description:

 

 

 

 

Then there's the work of Rossi (unfortunately without K or V) and a nice alphabet of Giambiattista Palatino (yes, you guessed it, the calligrapher after whom Zapf named his famous font for Linotype)

 

 

plus many more examples. But I don't know of a real, formal training/schoolbook. I don't think there was one, because it's not that complicated to think of, just repeating some few basic patterns. And from those simple patterns the more complicated ones evolve quite naturally. The hard part is a good execution.

 

LOVE IT!!!!!!

[mallymal1]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd289/caliken_2007/Cadelincolour600.jpg

 

Spectacular indeed.

[mac47]

Caliken, the multi-colored effect is very beautiful. Did you do this on a computer?

I recently did a Christmas card using the Rossi cadel G:
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zpse713c7a9.jpg

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zpsb4eeff33.jpg

Then I got it copied and printed with a 3-D gold effect:
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zps29b914e6.jpg

Similar was this paper I lettered with my daughter's name:
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zps2c273d62.jpg

And this "D" with a Psalm from the Vulgate:
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zps9f381b78.jpg

Edited December 2, 2013 by mac47

[ArchiMark]

Yes, spectacular, cadel, Ken....thanks for sharing this....

 

And thanks to everyone that has posted cadels....getting quite an education....

 

[cybaea]

Very nice, mac47! Very, very nice indeed.

[caliken]

mac47 :

 

This was taken from a design by Marco Antonio Rossi. I produced it entirely by hand, with some modifications of my own.

 

I scan my work and use photobucket as a means of uploading it to FPN.

 

I'm not anti-computer, but as a professional calligrapher, I know that I get work on the basis of it having been hand-produced.

 

Ken