Tezhip “the art of illumination” is one of the most important branches of turkish traditional arts. The base of the word “Tezhip” in arabic is “zeheb” which means “gilding” or “illumination”. This illumination art is basically used for the ornamentation of the Korans. The literary and religious manuscript sand firmans (imperialorders), the divans which are the collection of poetry are all or namented mainly by “tezhip”. The story boks called “mesnevi” with miniatures are also or namented by “tezhip”. The origin of “tezhip art” goes back to 8th and 9th centuries in the Middle Asia and enrichened through ages especially in Anatolia where this art reached its peak during the Ottomans. Consequently “tezhip” is the touchstone of turkish traditional arts. By keeping to the techniques of the pattern sand for ms , our mission is to carr you this traditional art for the next generations. Hence, the main intention of this presentation will be about the history of “tezhip art” throughout the ages and mainly it will be about the evolution and the improvement of this art in the century we live in regarding the universal esthetic criteria of art making. On the other hand, the main concern of this paper on “tezhip art” is to clarify that the traditional art is not only the work of traditional craftsmen but the work of creative artists nourished from classical roots within collective consciousness of visual richness enabling them to synthetisetheir personal artistic trait sand findings. Contemporary critics who pretent that classical arts should remain classical, would probably harshly criticize sixteenth century calligrapher Karahisari's master designs. In contemporary art of painting we witness that artists incline to be more creative after accomplished sketching classical works. Artists like Picasso, Kandinski, Miro and Klee walked in this path and introduced innovations to Western art with their abtract designs.