Architecture and Memory

The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

Robert Kirkbride

 

As evident from the marginalia of medieval manuscripts, the metaphor of concatenation was not limited to images of forged metal links; it included hunting, fishing, and more digestible rhetorical figures, such as enlinked pretzels. Drawn by Amelia Amelia after marginalia in The Hours of Catherine of Cleves.

Source: © Robert Kirkbride

As evident from the marginalia of medieval manuscripts, the metaphor of concatenation was not limited to images of forged metal links; it included hunting, fishing, and more digestible rhetorical figures, such as enlinked pretzels. Drawn by Amelia Amelia after marginalia in The Hours of Catherine of Cleves.