Pen and Parchment - The Beautiful Evidence of Medieval Drawings

Join the discussion, or learn more about the themes and selected works of art related to "Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages" on view at the Met June 2 - August 23, 2009: blog.metmuseum.org/penandparch...
Edward Tufte, professor emeritus of political sciences, statistics, and computer science, Yale University, and the leading authority on information design, discusses how drawings from the Middle Ages exhibit "graphical excellence." Melanie Holcomb, associate curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters Museum and Gardens, introduces the talk.

[@AlexanderBrook]

Lecture starts 5:25

[@IamAvidity]

I enjoyed how Edward Tufte misquoted Eric Gill in a way that shows Trufte's viewpoint on beauty. Replacing "itself" for "her". Really fun to watch and informative lecture!

[@OlubunmiAdewumi]

Lol.. Thanks Alex for the information. I was having second thoughts...

[@chrisferatu1793]

I wondered why a professor of statistics and computer science was giving a lecture on medieval drawing lol

[@nbme-answers]

5:32

[@posthocergopropterhoc8736]

Hello.

[@Nick_Tippett]

[@stephaniewilson3955]

Skip the first 5 minutes.

[@SidewaysFamilyVideos]

unexpected turn as in away from having anything to do with medieval drawings? Totally inappropriate lecture title. Tufte is great but this was just the same speech he gives anywhere.

[@line241]

The first woman is so smug and annoying I can't take it.