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Illuminated closing pages written in naskh script by Seyyid...
Illuminated closing pages written in naskh script by Seyyid Mehmed Nuri, from a single-volume Qur’an (click through for more detail); Shumen, Bulgaria, 1849-50.
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Tiled tympanum, Qous Mosque, Cairo, XVI century. from L’ Art...
Tiled tympanum, Qous Mosque, Cairo, XVI century. from L’ Art Arabe, Emile Prisse d’Avennes.
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The Lady of Shalott. Manuscript on vellum, illuminated by...
The Lady of Shalott. Manuscript on vellum, illuminated by Alberto Sangorski.
Although Tennyson’s romantic poem The Lady of Shalott is set in the medieval realm of Camelot, the calfskin binding inlaid with colored goatskin evokes the floral opulence of Islamic art. The six-pointed recessed panel on the upper cover, containing eight opals around a single carnelian, serves as a handsome centerpiece, while the contrast between the turquoise arabesque shapes with cream bellflowers and the surrounding black fields of leafy red roses creates the effect of cornerpieces. On the lower cover, this design is echoed by fields of gilt roses on turquoise.
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19th july: archetype (by Olivia Jeffries)
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The Shroud of St. Germain L’Auxerrois c. 1000An example of...
The Shroud of St. Germain L’Auxerrois
c. 1000
An example of Byzantine silk
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History of Japanese Art, Penelope Mason. This is the Kongoku...
History of Japanese Art, Penelope Mason. This is the Kongoku Bosatsu.
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Gina Adams
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Sayat Nova
Sayat Nova
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"Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face — there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift..."
“Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face — there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.”
- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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Hildegard von Bingen, Der Lebenskreis (the Circle of Life)
Hildegard von Bingen, Der Lebenskreis (the Circle of Life)
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Liber Floridus (“book of flowers”), Lambert of St. Omer How...
Liber Floridus (“book of flowers”), Lambert of St. Omer
How the world will end
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Memory seals - Giordano Bruno
Memory seals - Giordano Bruno
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Geheime figuren der Rosenkreuzer
Geheime figuren der Rosenkreuzer
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Mystische sophia, Geheime figuren der Rosenkreuzer, detail
Mystische sophia, Geheime figuren der Rosenkreuzer, detail
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