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Coral tree moth, Agathodes ostentalis, Crambidae

Photographed in Luzon, Philippines by Frank Deschandol // Instagram

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Minoan octopus fresco

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Tubifera ferruginosa by John Kanzler

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Joan Longas - Nocturne in Maine, 2025 - Oil on canvas

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Egon Schiele - Port of Trieste - 1907

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Sunrise, from Ten Views of Mount Fuji, by Yoshida Hiroshi, 1926

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Sky Ladder by Cai Guo-Qiang. The Sky Ladder was unveiled in 2016 over Quanzhou, China. It burned for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It was the artist’s fourth and final attempt, as previous attempts had met only varying degrees of success. The artist says he had dreamt of a fire ladder 21 years prior and was very excited to see it come to life.

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This facsimile of The Royal Psalter of Sainte-Chapelle, an illuminated manuscript originally made in Paris in the early thirteenth century, is filled with a delightful variety of geometric, floral, and zoomorphic line fillers.

Medieval scribes and artists filled the empty space between lines with humor, providing a break from often serious texts and also creating visual balance and symmetry. We suspect that they must have had a lot of fun creating these quirky creatures.

The Fine Arts Library holds a collection of over 300 full-color facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts from a wide range of periods and traditions. The collection primarily includes religious texts, but representatives of secular works on poetry and literature, astronomy, travel, sketchbooks, and science and medicine are also included.