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Travels with Ptolemy!

1540 hand-colored Cosmography with a side order of (putative) cannibalism.
One of my favorite woodcuts in

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2020-11-18

This week for we present the 1985 accordion-fold book 'Brooklyn Bridge' with a poem by the Soviet Russian poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky and original woodcuts by Canadian printer and book designer Glenn Goluska. Learn more here: https://t.co/HV0GDS8z9d

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2020-11-07

A Lapfull of Windfalls, 1935, by (#ClareVeronicaHopeLeighton; American, 1898-1989), who was born (Nov 4). Held at the , https://t.co/AuOdTgrdLO

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2020-11-04

Born Nils Dardel Swedish Inspired by with preference for a pure palette & Japanese Also experimented with painting several in the style & explored clear motifs & strong colorus

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2020-10-25

To celebrate and the onset of fall, we’d like to share with you a book by artist and printmaker Danny Pierce. 'The Bear That Woke Too Soon' tells the story of an Alaskan Brown Bear and features original woodcuts. Learn more here: https://t.co/HQVl3bUdyW

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2020-10-06

In 1530, Otto Brunfels (1488-1534, Germanic botanist) compiled 'Herbarium Vivae Eicones': plants he himself found during his botanical studies were represented with woodcuts. Also he wrote on pedagogics, the Arabic language, pharmaceutics & entomology.

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2020-09-18

On this day in 1876, Sherwood Anderson was born. He wrote the essay “J. J. Lankes and His Woodcuts” for our Winter 1931 issue, describing the title artist in a minimalist manner similar to his style in WINESBURG, OHIO.

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2020-09-14

And now, something different. Giorgio Liberale (1527-1579) was an Italian artist who had been working for the imperial court in Prague. He designed over 500 small woodcuts for the first Latin edition of classic Dioscurides' Materia medica.

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2020-09-07

Bluethroat (at LA Pai Gallery in Ottawa)

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2020-09-01

One of the many hidden treats inside Book of Hours, made in Paris in c.1526, is the vibrancy of the hand coloured woodcuts. The vividness of the orange of the hose and breeches in this image in particular absolutely blows my mind.

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2020-08-02

Woodcuts in the Czech prayer book XVII J 4 from 1510. Its owner pasted woodcuts (sitting saints and colored woodcut of Mary with Jesus in the gloriole). The second woodcut is of Czech origin, around 1490. Other fragments were pasted directly into the manuscript.

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2020-07-23

Fancy doing some from Leonhart Fuchs' notable book on herbs?🌿

Printed in the 1500s, it contains over 500 woodcuts & many of the illustrations are based on plants grown in Fuchs’s own garden: https://t.co/jfINexc4SP

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2020-07-22

1493 The Nuremberg Chronicle, authored by historian,humanist & one of the first cartographers to use the printing press Hartmann Schedel, was published.#History

Woodcuts of: (L), Constantinople (Up. R), (Low. R) (Public domain; source wikipedia)

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2020-07-12

Happy Birthday to German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture, Käthe Kollwitz, July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) https://t.co/2FmZpPDw6K

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2020-07-08

Colour Woodcuts by Eric Slater.

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2020-05-05

Early 20thc facsimiles of 'Fasciculus Medicinae', a collection of medical texts first printed in 1491 with some of the earliest known anatomical woodcuts, including these depictions of pregnancy

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2020-05-05

Munch was a prolific painter (some 1000 paintings & 1000s of woodcuts, lithographs etc). His painting was well established in the early 1880s, such as we see in this early self-portrait (on left). But there are others of that decade that share looser style of The Day After.

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2020-04-29

Inspired by the Japanese technique of printing color woodcuts using water-based inks, the beautiful compositions of Carl Thiemann (1881 – 1966)

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2020-04-10

feature strongly in the in “Over the reefs” by Robert (1948) 🌴🌴.

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2020-03-25