Torun town hall

Again Torun, Copernicus birthplace, this time Renaissance calligraphy cut in stone and placed on the wall of its mediaeval town hall. There are several plaques on thet wall, one of which I found particularly interesting.

Apart from the fact that I find this antiqua very graceful, what amazes me here is the stonework. Obviously it is something harder than limestone, letters are as if between the lines that mark the depression delineating them. Higher or lower letters have separate depression around them, but it somehow still is graceful.

I don't see any date on this stone but a neighbouring one, (cut in a similar way but in a less durable stone and now weathered), has a date 1680 (which would of course suggest it doesn't really date from the Renaissance era).

 

There is a book available, based on this blog.  

On the blog there is, so to speak, more room, one can show more illustrations there. Blogs, however, come and go, there is no certainty that it will be there ten years from now. The book, on the other hand, once you acquire it, will last, one can be sure of that.