Decoracion e ilustracion

[metmuseum]

Ste. Théodore, vierge et martyre (St. Theodora, Virgin and Martyr), April 28th, from “Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année” (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year). 1636. Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/420484

[citoyen-rouge]

Playing around with another rebinding. I’ve had this sitting around for 10+ years. I found it at a flea market in Paris totally destroyed by water damage. Nothing special but good practice.

[citoyen-rouge]

Here’s where we’re going next

[1five1two]

'The Closing Door'. Anna Alma-Tadema. 1867-1943. Detail.

[inspirationpainting]

Johannes van Der Meer (Johannes Vermeer Dutch, 1632–1675) (Artist's Studio). 1666-1668

[velvetmasonry]

Paw prints on a 15th-century Flemish manuscript

[nemfrog]

The Book of Flowers. 1800.

Internet Archive

[portalibis]

Postilla in Prophetas minores et majores, illuminated manuscript, Nederlands: Hs. 252, f. 164v. Tetramorf, c. 1423-1425, by Nicholas of Lyra

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[ducissatenebrarum]

“Human Skeleton,” by James Ward, ca 1810. Medium: graphite, brown ink, brown and gray wash.

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[pecaremos]

[nemfrog]

Marbled endpaper that evokes infinity. 1889.

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[nemfrog]

Weighed and wanting. 1908. Endpaper.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Golden bees. The honey bee. 1890. Book cover, detail.

Internet Archive

[baddreamland]

A Tree Creature, The Tempest, 1951. Loudon Sainthill.

[tigerandpilgrim]

[usedcarheaven]

[classic-art-favourites]

Islamic Theologian with Quran by Osman Hamdi Bey, 1902.

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, after Albrecht Durer