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Calligraphy
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Writing as a visual art, practiced with broad-edged pen, pointed nib or brush. The East Asian brush tradition ranks it among the highest fine arts; the Islamic world made it the central sacred art; and the Western revival that began with Edward Johnston's foundational hand made it a home craft of wedding invitations, hand lettering and illuminated pages.
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Earliest Evidence (Circa)The earliest calligraphic writing usually cited is Chinese oracle bone script, incised on ox scapulae and tortoise shells for divination in the Shang dynasty, characters that were sometimes brushed on before they were carved. 1 OriginCalligraphy has no single point of origin: writing systems, and the deliberate art of forming their letters well, developed independently in separate civilizations, from Chinese oracle bone script to the Latin alphabet, which first appears in Rome around 600 BC. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Calligraphy (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalligraphyQuote, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligraphy
The Latin alphabet first appeared about 600 BCE in ancient Rome
1. Calligraphy (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligraphy, China sectionQuote, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligraphy, China section
the oldest known Chinese characters are oracle bone script, carved on ox scapulae and tortoise plastrons
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