Artist: Kyd.
Publisher: Raphael Tuck and Sons.
More can be seen at cardcow, a commercial site which features a really great collection:
http://www.cardcow.com/
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
Published over the course of more than twenty years (1751-1777), the 32 volumes of the Encyclopédie include 21 volumes of text with more than 70,000 articles on subjects ranging from asparagus to the zodiac. The remaining 11 volumes contain beautifully engraved plates illustrating many of the articles. The Encyclopédie was the major achievement of the French Enlightenment whose aim, in Diderot's words, was to "change the common way of t…
Subscribe to:
Posts
(
Atom
)
