Newberry Libraryさんのイラストまとめ

Join us NOW on YouTube for a talk w/ philosopher Jonathan Lear about what Freud can teach us about living in a time of pandemic. https://t.co/sl2ye8GB8c

How it started How it's going

Answer: it typically took 6 years for a scribe to produce a Bible.

Despite an Eastern tradition of movable type beginning ca. 1000, Western book printing is thought to begin w/ Gutenberg.

Learn more in #RenaissanceInvention, now on view: https://t.co/9a7velAbo8

Polishing armor helped deflect blows from opponents and even bullets. In the Renaissance, new technology made armor-polishing more efficient than it had been in the past (when folks had to do it all manually). #RenaissanceInvention

#RenaissanceInvention is open Tues-Fri, 12-4pm. Learn about the cutting-edge tech of the Renaissance and its impact on the world. https://t.co/zDUrA7K3FV

While designing new signage + way-finding, we’d planned to put these little guys all over the library to drive home the importance of wearing a mask.

We decided to take the signage design in a new direction. But the message is still relevant.

Since Chi’s annual display of fireworks-exploding-out-of-a-giant-lion have been canceled this year due to COVID, we hope this engraving can provide an adequate substitute. #fourthofjuly #caturday

[Fireworks for the entry of Louis XIII. Pierre Faber. 1623. Wing folio ZP 639.J85]

After the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, copies were circulated throughout the colonies. On July 9, the text reached New York City, where a public reading inspired colonists to topple a statue of King George III.

@umd_BookLab In case anyone needs some inspo... [From our Norma Rubovits Collection]

These lil guys didn't get the memo: it's #WorldBookDay not #WorldBugDay. We'll let it slide this one time.

[Alphabet des insectes. Léon Becker; illustrations by F. Méaulle. 1883. Wing folio ZP 839 .B395]