A vanitas is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, often contrasting symbols of wealth and symbols of ephemerality and death. Best-known are vanitas still lifes, a common genre in Netherlandish art of the 16th and 17th centuries; they have also been created at other times and in other media and genres. Common vanitas symbols include skulls, which are a reminder of the certai…
Showing posts with label 15th Century. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 15th Century. Show all posts
A page from a musical score book of enigmatic canons by composer Juan del Vado (1626 - 1691), completed between 1677 and 1679 and given as a gift to Juan José de Austria, the brother of Charles II, for usage in his royal chapel.
See/read more here:
https://www.emblematica.com/blog/2010/02/enigmas-resueltos.html
... is the name of the typeface which Francesco Griffo , working for the Aldine Press under Aldus Manutius , cut for Venetian scholar Cardinal Pietro Bembo in 1495.
One of the noteworthy things about Bembo is the fascination which contemporary graphic designers show for this 500+ year old typeface. Below are an anonymous poster based upon Bembo (top), "Bembo Type Work" by *Xantiel (middle), and "Font Poster" by creativespiri…
The Legacy of Aldus Manutius and his Press
What this site lacks in appearance it more than makes up for in content. A modest, bare bones html interface takes you through the life and times and the work of one of the greatest book designers and printers of all time. Very good textual descriptions as well as lots of plates showing the beautiful book pages created at the Aldine Press.
15th Century
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Incunabula
Printing
Rare Books
Printing in England from William Caxton to Christopher Barker
The page of an exhibition held in England in 1977! Gives lots of information on the era. Some nice images also, but mostly text: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/printing/index.html
The images below are William Gilbert's "De magnete" , printed in London by Petrus Short in 1600 (top), Galen's and "De temperamentis, et de inaequalia intemperie" from 1521 (middle), and James Pilkington's "A godlie exposition …
Huge archive of etchings of the artist, covers a huge range from costumes to architecture to maps and title pages. The image quality of quite a few of the reproductions is not the greatest, unfortunately. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/hollar/
China, chinoiserie and Painting in Turkestan under the Timurids, ca. 1400: http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/turkis.html
I love the miniatures of Mehmed Siyah Qalem, or Mehmed of the Black Pen. Although Mehmed Siyah Qalem was a Turk from Central Asia his work is very strongly inspired by Chinese art, which was imported into Turkestan by the Mongol invasions at the times, as well as by the strong trade links between Eastern and Western Asia.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/incunabula/e/index.html Probably the best collection of Icunabula to be found online - at least that I am aware of. Not only many superb quality images but also very good explanatory text . The collection mostly concentrates on full text pages (with relatively few images); which I find particularly fascinating since there are so many similarities that one can pinpoint between contemporary, typographically based page layouts an…
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