VISUAL COMMUNICATION HISTORY BLOG

This is the oldest multi color book in history. The printed images give the feel of watercolor paintings. https://mymodernmet.com/oldest-book-color/

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Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar. Wellcome Collection https://marinni.livejournal.com/491199.html

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…

Violin pattern attributed to a Cremonese workshop, 17th century. http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/Violins/ViolinPattern/ViolinPattern.html

Very nice collection of Anatomical Illustrations, can be accessed from here: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm . The three plates below are from "Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme" by Marc Jean Bourgery (1797-1849). The book was published in Paris in 1831-1854. However, this is by no means the only book to be found here: The collection is huge, with ninety-five individual titles represented, …