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Poem No. 2: Of the Sea, Onchi Kōshirō, June 1957, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

abstract From the later memorial edition. Size: 17 ½ x 17 3/8 in. (44.5 x 44.2 cm) (image, sheet) Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/82416/

maertyrer

Odilon Redon St. Sebastian

Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper, 3.4 x 15.3 cm

robert-hadley

Sampler ( England ), 1804 silk and metal wrapped silk embroidery, linen foundation.

Source: cooperhewitt.org

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Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain: Fol. 277v, Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian, c. 1500, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art

This manuscript was illuminated by a circle of at least five highly organized manuscript painters active in the Flemish cities of Ghent and Bruges. The principal illuminator was Alexander Bening, who painted the majority of the book’s miniatures. Manuscripts produced by this circle of artists are renowned for the decoration of their borders, which typically feature a rich variety of realistically-painted flowers, birds, and butterflies. This prayer book, called a book of hours, was intended not for a cleric, but for the private devotions of a lay person-in this case, Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain (1451-1504). Isabella’s coat of arms embellishes the book’s frontispiece. It is unlikely that the book was commissioned by the Queen herself; rather, she probably received it as a diplomatic gift from someone courting her patronage, perhaps Cardinal Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros. A Franciscan friar, Jimenez was dependent upon Isabella for his advancement, first to the post of Queen’s confessor in 1492, and then to Archbishop of Toledo in 1495. Size: Codex: 22.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 in.) Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum

https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.256.277.b

garadinervi

From: Stéphane Mallarmé, (1897), Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard, with lithographs by André Masson, Amateurs du livre et de l’estampe modernes, Paris, 1961

mentaltimetraveller

David Novros Barranca N.M., 1972 watercolor on paper 22 ½ x 31 ½ in (57.2 x 80 cm)

barcarole

Baffled for just a day or two— Embarrassed—not afraid— Encounter in my garden An unexpected Maid. She beckons, and the woods start— She nods, and all begin— Surely, such a country I was never in!

from Emily Dickinson’s manuscripts, ca. 1860.

brassmanticore

Double folios from a Kitab-i hasha'ish (Book of herbs)

Probably Bijapur Court, Deccan, dated September 1595

This double folio is from a Persian translation of the Materia Medica known as the Kitab-i hasha'ish (Book of herbs). It has been attributed to the reign of Muhammad Adil Shah II (1580-1627), the ruler of the Bijapur in Deccan in India and one of the most learned patrons of the arts. The five illustrations represent plants believed to aid digestion and include several varieties of cucumber and watercress. Randomly arranged on the page and spilling into the margins, the illustrations are notable for their expressive and spontaneous treatment, found in few other herbals.

Freer-Sackler F1998.82

artist-matisse

The Sword Swallower (L'Avaleur de sabres) from Jazz, Henri Matisse, 1947, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of the artist Size: composition (irreg.): 15 3/8 x 11 15/16" (39.1 x 30.3 cm); sheet: 16 9/16 x 25 9/16" (42.1 x 65 cm) Medium: One from a portfolio of twenty pochoirs

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/105391

desimonewayland

Detail of a Gentleman holding a laurel wreath by Jacques Bellange

1600 - 1606 - watercolor

Collection of the library and archives of the Château de Chantilly

desimonewayland

Albrecht Dürer, Dead Blue Roller, 1500 (or 1512)

Albertina, Vienna

desimonewayland

Mary Emily Eaton, Heliocereus elegantissimus, 1912 - watercolour

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

geritsel

Emil Nolde - fish, watercolour

zarya-zaryanitsa

The Venus-like Frau Minne (personification of love/courtly love), torturing the hearts of her beloved in nineteen different ways, in a print by Master Casper von Regensburg, made around 1485.

- Medieval Bodies by Jack Hartnell