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#FontCovers Font covers on the move. 1850s watercolor by Frederick Sandys shows a different Jacobean font cover than there is now. Current font cover is really quite fine.
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#AsianTwitter Traditional Japanese handicraft (begun in the Edo Period) create pictures. Oshie which uses padded fabric, while Chigiri-e, uses torn paper. Usually mounted on sturdy shikishi art board measuring around 10.5 x 9.5 inches
#AsianTwitter Terracotta piggy banks from Indonesia, Majapahit Dynasty, 14th-15th --the critters symbolized prosperity & good fortune.
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#MedievalTwitter Look at these grand 3-D models of cathedrals!
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#MedievalTwitter 1542 Cambrai, Bibl. mun., ms. 0125, B f. 092 -- look at these amazing marginalia and initials! The artist had a lot of fun with these... Yes, I know it's really Renaissance, but I still like it lots.
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#AsianTwitter Some lovely summer scenes by Japanese shin-hanga woodblock artist Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
#MedievalTwitter Émile-Antoine-François Herson, Interior of St. Etienne du Mont (1864), watercolor, Walters Art Museum. Fabulous staircases!
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#Caterday Masato Taniuchi (b. 1956), The Right Amount of Happiness; Various Things; Proud Cat Walk; Modestly; woodblock prints of cats with philosophical sayings.
Walter von Nessen (1885-1943) Modernist designer. Some of his bookend designs.
Finished recording my last Introduction to Asian Art lecture and I'm kind of worn out. I really miss actually hearing student responses and questions and seeing their faces when I introduce them to amazing images like these: