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Daniel Mitsui
@danielmitsuiart
Artist: ink drawing, religious iconography, ornament, lettering. Influenced by medieval art. Also @dmitsuidesign. https://t.co/HTat4uiOln
Jul 24, 2023 • 44 tweets • 11 min read
A thread on my favorite typefaces: Image Those who follow my work know that I am intensely interested in lettering, calligraphy, and type design. Despite that, I spend relatively little time pondering questions of which typeface to use —
Oct 5, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
I received a commission to create a Catholic religious drawing in a Chinese style. When developing the concept for the project, I looked to one of the early missionaries to China, the Italian priest Matteo Ricci... Some time in the early 17th century, Ricci gifted four European prints to the Chinese publisher Cheng Dayue: two engravings by Anthony Wierix from a series illustrating the Passion and...
Oct 4, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
This ink drawing illustrates an incident early in the life of Saint Francis of Assisi.

St. Francis’s father, a wealthy cloth merchant, was disturbed by his odd behavior and his giving away the family’s money. He appealed to the bishop of Assisi to discipline his son... Image According to Thomas of Celano:

"When he had been led before the bishop, Francis neither delayed nor explained himself, but simply stripped off his clothes and threw them aside, giving them back to his father. He did not even keep his trousers, but stood there in front of...
Oct 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Bookplates of St. Francis of Assisi.

These are universal bookplates; anyone can write his or her name in the blank space and paste them into books to identify a personal library. They depict St. Francis of Assisi in a scene ironically relating to the ownership of... ...books. According to a medieval vita:

"When blessed Francis was sitting near a fire, warming himself, the same one spoke to him again about a psalter. And blessed Francis told him: After you have a psalter, you will desire and want to have a breviary; after you have a...
Oct 3, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
My patron wanted a drawing that combined Trinitarian and Sacred Heart imagery, and that included a great many saints and symbols of personal significance to her and her family.

It is formatted as a verso page in an illuminated manuscript. In the central image, I drew... Image the Holy Trinity in the traditional Gnadenstuhl (Throne of Mercy) arrangement: God the Father as the Ancient of Days holds the Crucified Christ, and the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove flies between Them. This was a common means of portraying the Holy Trinity in Gothic art.
Sep 19, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
St. Theodore of Canterbury, whose feast is today.

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#inkdrawing St. Theodore of Canterbury, also known as St. Theodore of Tarsus, was born in Asia Minor in the early 7th century, and witnessed the wars between Sassanid Persia and the Byzantine Empire. He fled the conquests of the Rashidun Caliphate, lived in Constantinople and later Rome.
Sep 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
St. Hildegard of Bingen, ink drawing on goatskin.

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#hildegard Image Hildegard’s theology of beauty, best expressed in her epistle on music to the prelates of Mainz, has profoundly influenced my artwork. She proposed that delight in beauty is essentially a longing for the dimly remembered experience of Eden.
Sep 16, 2022 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Some reflections on my very earliest artistic influences.

#1: Eyvind Earle... Image The image is from this article::

waltdisney.org/blog/eyvind-ea…