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Tag Archives: Printmaking
1880: The House
Illustration from The Children’s Object Book (F. Warne & Co., 1880’s) (source)
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Books, Children, Great Britain, Houses, Printmaking
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1756: Allegory
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Allegorical Frontispiece of Rome and its history from Le Antichità Romane (1756)
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Tagged 18th Century, Architecture, Books, Cities, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italy, Printmaking, Rome, Sculpture
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1840: The End of the World
“Der Götter und Riesenkampff bey dem Weltuntergang” [The Gods and the Great Battle at the Apocalypse]; illustration from The World Theater, or The Universal World History From Creation To The Year 1840, etc. by C Strahlheim (1834-41).
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1898: Self-Portrait with Demons
James Ensor: Poster for the Salon: Self-Portrait with Demons (1898) (source)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Belgium, Demons, James Ensor, Portraits, Printmaking
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1806: Blessed Among the Blessed
In the third canto of the Paradiso, Dante has arrived in the lowest sphere of Heaven with his guide Beatrice, who has just given him a long lecture about the origin of spots on the moon. There, he sees just … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Century, 1800's, 19th Century, Books, Christianity, Dante, Gian Giacomo Macchiavelli, Heaven, Italy, Poetry, Printmaking, Religion, The Moon
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1806: Journey to the West
Katsushika Taito II: 画本西遊全伝 [Picture Book – Journey to the West] Vol. 3 (c. 1806) (source)
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Tagged 1800's, 19th Century, Animals, Books, Japan, Katsushika Taito II, Monkeys, Printmaking
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1470: The Ox
Martin Schongauer: Ox (possibly with book) ~ symbol of St. Luke (1470-1490) In Christian iconography, the winged ox is the symbol of the evangelist Luke—traditionally seen as the animal of sacrifice and therefore linked to the sacrifice of Jesus himself.
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Tagged 15th Century, Animals, Christianity, Germany, Martin Schongauer, Oxen, Printmaking, Religion
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1878: The Great Physician
It is to the Nilometer [a submerged building built to measure and predict the Nile’s clarity and water level] that the island of Rods [Rhoda/Rawdah] owes its fame, and there is little else that the visitor will find worth seeing … Continue reading
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Africa, Books, Egypt, Georg Ebers, Germany, Printmaking, Religion, Trees
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1595: Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae
Hans Vredeman de Vries: Alchemist’s Laboratory (1595) Illustration for Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae by Heinrich Khunrath
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Tagged 16th Century, Alchemy, Art, Books, Hans Vredeman de Vries, Netherlands, Printmaking
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1904: Art Forms
Plates from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (1904): See more here.
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Animals, Biology, Birds, Books, Ernst Haeckel, Frogs, Germany, Jellyfish, Nature, Printmaking, Science
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