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Yoshitomo Nara’s exhibit was unveiled on March 5 at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai. Over 70 artworks and 700 manuscripts of Nara are on display. The extent of Nara’s artistic output over the years all in one museum. #YoshitomoNara
A large part of #Wynnstay mansion was burnt, destroying the valuable library of #Welsh manuscripts #onthisday 1858 https://t.co/sJ9X3DvUlN #WelshHistory #Wales @NLWArchives @YstadauCymru
Walter Crane’s Victorian Bluebeard was forbidding and terrifying. Yet it was also embroidered with neoclassicism, Morris’ influence, & the Arts & Crafts movement’s love of tapestries, old manuscripts, medievalism, &…peacocks -if you can spot them ☺️🦚🗝#FairyTaleTuesday
One of the greatest things about reading manuscripts on weirdos like tunicates is that the drawings often look like some eldritch horror out of Berserk. From Sanamyan and Sanamyan 2005:
Featuring an array of fascinating illustrations from the British Library’s rich medieval collection, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts includes anecdotes about cats – both real and imaginary – to provide a fascinating picture of the life of the cat in the medieval world.
Another book cover art for "The Whispering Dark" from Kelly Andrew. One of my favorite parts about book cover gigs is reading manuscripts, before the book is out. And man, I just inhaled this one 🖤.
#MedievalManuscripts Holding a book properly so that it wouldn't be damaged was important. People would use their sleeves (like this hybrid fellow), or use cloth covers
Please join us:
International Conference on Common Heritage of #Iran and #India:
📜 #Manuscripts: Capacities and Challenges
13-14 Feb 2022
New OC just dropped
Meet Alexander Anastasia Amber, AKA Triple A or Dr. Amber
She was a simple paleontologist with an interest in angelic manuscripts. One day, she was struck by an angel's lightning bolt while walking home.
She survived, but not her sanity
#ArtistOnTwitter
a jinn for #librumprodigiosum. Tried to do an intermediary between their depiction in old Arabic manuscripts (which have interesting variation, with bestial features like horns and fangs being common) and the 🧞♂️ we are more associated with
Anyway, there are two other illustrations in Folio of Fancies: first, an illuminated serpent, inspired by medieval bestiary manuscripts – books of descriptions of animals – like the Aberdeen Bestiary. #MTGBookHist
I'm officially open and looking forward to seeing some amazing manuscripts!
Please feel free to query me:
https://t.co/qip0deJSBO
#amquerying #WritingCommunity
"This spinning world whose fate has been burnt to ashes— is the world I've written about in my manuscripts. I am the Sorcerer of Possibilities, Kagamine. Though I am certain that you know that already, don't you? Heh."
Rare illustrations of the #Buddha in #Thai manuscripts are often of exquisite quality, as in this funeral book with text from the #Tipitaka. The Buddha is seen in the #bhumisparsha mudra commemorating the moment of His enlightenment https://t.co/jRIV4syrjb https://t.co/IzuIjtaA73
The link between this festival and Xiuhtecuhtli, with its plea for divine aid for plant and human growth, is made in several codices/manuscripts written after the Spanish Conquest. Not just children but trees and plants were also stretched to make them grow more speedily. #Nfts