Very beautiful and strange sea monsters, elegant distortions. The artifice of sixteenth-century mannerism. He worked in Roma 1580 – 1610. Judging by the dates - he lived only 30 years.

Giovanni Andrea Maglioli. Engraving. A merman and a woman riding the ocean with a sea horse.

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engravings translates as "Plum Kisser". 😂

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Day 20: The rough sketch and final engraving for 'The execution of Lady Jane Grey' engraved by French artist Achille Devéria (1800 - 1857).

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This is such a nice idea!
I don't have that much but here is a glass engraving my friend did for me years ago and a gift-art from the lovely

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The Battle of Vauchamp was fought 1814 and was the last French victory during the Six Days Campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition. Hand watercoloured steel engraving from a drawing by Martinet, engraved by Jean Reville - 1838.

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malleus draconia as florasis floral engraving phoenix makeup palette and clio pro eye palette 09 botanic mauve

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Obras de ARTE que definen el AMOR mejor que las palabras ❤️
TIRARME DE CABEZA 35 x 27 cm., impresión Giclèe de

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A creature inspired by an engraving I noticed in Rome

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Vintage engraving of the Temple of Poseidon at Kalauna

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Clay jug engravings contain microscopic vibrations that scientists tried to playback with a needle, recovering sounds from thousands of years ago. Result quality seems low (https://t.co/cK1saOwq1O), wonder what could do to this?

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Albrecht Dürer’s visual personification of melancholy in his engraving Melencolia I. It shows a dejected, winged figure completely lacking in inspiration, despite the fact she is surrounded by tools, repositories of knowledge & other sources of stimulation. Dürer inspired E.Munch

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A selection of engravings by Abigail Rorer for 'Mimpish Squinnies: Reginald Farrer's Short Guide to Worthless Plants' (2007), based on Farrer's 1919 descriptions of real flowers he disliked, which you can read here (and I urge you to do so)
https://t.co/MCJeUzoKQ5

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Edward Donovan, Anglo-Irish naturalist and illustrator, is ’s

These engravings are from his Epitome of the Natural History of the of China (1798).

https://t.co/Q4LBEwP1ti

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In art we've experienced a return to fine arts, to classical forms and techniques: painting, sculpture, engraving..intervened by current tech and/or symbology.

even promotes New Renaissance's concept

AI isn't the only example...

Artists:

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On the left:
"Steel engraving of a brindle dachshund, on 19th-century foxed paper" (#midjourney)

On the right:
Detail (#topaz

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Adam Buck, Regency Illustrator and

Sophia Western, an 1800 engraving after an Adam Buck drawing, depicts a Tom Jones heroine with a jumping rope.

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Latona Giving Birth to Apollo and Diana on the Island of Delos, by Diana Scultori, an Italian engraver from Mantua, after Giulio Romano. Diana is one of the earliest known women printmakers, making mostly reproductive engravings of well-known paintings or drawings.

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'View of Bradford, dominated factories with smoking chimneys, from a hill with grazing sheep and cattle;' Proof illustration to 'The Land We Live In' (London: 1847-1851, Vol III p 40); touched proof Wood-engraving on chine, © The Trustees of the British Museum

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