Words and Pictures From Old Books

Words and Pictures From Old Books http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Recently added pictures scanned from old books Wed, 15 May 2013 01:05:00 GMT Wed, 15 May 2013 01:05:00 GMT 180 http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/presspics/Liam10-70x100-amazon.jpg Words and Pictures From Old Books http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Fantasy Romantic Border with Eros, Cherubs and Mermaids, from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 14th May 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/023-fantasy-romantic-border/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/023-fantasy-romantic-border/" title="Fantasy Romantic Border with Eros, Cherubs and Mermaids, from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 14th May 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/023-fantasy-romantic-border-q83-337x500.jpg" width="120" height="178" alt="Fantasy Romantic Border with Eros, Cherubs and Mermaids" title="Fantasy Romantic Border with Eros, Cherubs and Mermaids, from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 14th May 2013" /></a></p> <p>This ornate rococo border surrounded the title of a 1516 book printed in Germany:</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/023-fantasy-romantic-border/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 14 May 2013 10:59:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/023-fantasy-romantic-border/ Coffee Stall, from London (Volume IV) (1841), added on 14th May 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolIV/pages/v4-305-Coffee-Stall/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolIV/pages/v4-305-Coffee-Stall/" title="Coffee Stall, from London (Volume IV) (1841), added on 14th May 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolIV/tn/v4-305-Coffee-Stall-q80-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="Coffee Stall" title="Coffee Stall, from London (Volume IV) (1841), added on 14th May 2013" /></a></p> <p>A woman with heavy clothing and a scarf over her head is serving hot coffee from a wooden barrel to three people gathered around her small table at a street-corner. In the background a baker’s shop is still shuttered up, showing that it’s early in the morning; a poster on the wall advertises a pantomime at the Theatre Royal; that and the holly on the barrel suggest mid Decemer. The two women seated for coffee have baskets: perhaps they are flower-sellers. The man behind them has a pick-axe.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolIV/pages/v4-305-Coffee-Stall/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 14 May 2013 02:28:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolIV/pages/v4-305-Coffee-Stall/ Avenging Angel, from Inferno: The Vision of Hell (1870), added on 3rd May 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Doree-Inferno/pages/009-Satan-detail-angel/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Doree-Inferno/pages/009-Satan-detail-angel/" title="Avenging Angel, from Inferno: The Vision of Hell (1870), added on 3rd May 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Doree-Inferno/tn/009-Satan-detail-angel-q93-251x500.jpg" width="120" height="239" alt="Avenging Angel" title="Avenging Angel, from Inferno: The Vision of Hell (1870), added on 3rd May 2013" /></a></p> <p>A detail from “Satan and Beelzebub” showing a Victorious Avenging Angel with a spear, winged, standing barefoot on a rock. I have isolated the angel (a cutout angel!)</p> <p>The illustration is from the First Book of Paradise Lost, “Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool / His mighty stature.” I only have a single page, unfortunately, given to me as a gift (I wouldn’t normally buy a plate from a book that had been ripped apart) but it was sold with <a href="016-Dante-in-the-Gloomy-Wood">Dante in the Gloomy Wood</a>, a scene from the Inferno.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Doree-Inferno/pages/009-Satan-detail-angel/">(read more...)</a></p> Fri, 03 May 2013 10:35:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Doree-Inferno/pages/009-Satan-detail-angel/ Ostenhanger House, Kent, Plate I, from The Antiquities of England and Wales (Vol III) (1783), added on 1st May 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-Antiquities-VolIII/pages/082-Ostenhanger-House-Kent-plate-1/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-Antiquities-VolIII/pages/082-Ostenhanger-House-Kent-plate-1/" title="Ostenhanger House, Kent, Plate I, from The Antiquities of England and Wales (Vol III) (1783), added on 1st May 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-Antiquities-VolIII/tn/082-Ostenhanger-House-Kent-plate-1-q67-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="Ostenhanger House, Kent, Plate I" title="Ostenhanger House, Kent, Plate I, from The Antiquities of England and Wales (Vol III) (1783), added on 1st May 2013" /></a></p> <p>Ostenhanger was merged with next-door Westenhanger Castle in 1509; today the manor is open for weddings but the part shown in this woodcut appears to be in ruins.</p> <p>The plate is signed Godfrey. Sc. (<i>i.e.</i> Sculpt, or engraver) and marked <i>ub 25. Aug. 1784 by S. Hooper.</i></p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-Antiquities-VolIII/pages/082-Ostenhanger-House-Kent-plate-1/">(read more...)</a></p> Wed, 01 May 2013 01:22:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-Antiquities-VolIII/pages/082-Ostenhanger-House-Kent-plate-1/ Isolated Angel Drawing, from La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910), added on 30th April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/pages/103-La-Vita-Nuova-isolated-angel/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/pages/103-La-Vita-Nuova-isolated-angel/" title="Isolated Angel Drawing, from La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910), added on 30th April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/tn/103-La-Vita-Nuova-isolated-angel-q90-711x862.jpg" width="120" height="145" alt="Isolated Angel Drawing" title="Isolated Angel Drawing, from La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910), added on 30th April 2013" /></a></p> <p>Woodcut of an angel, an attractive young man with a half-smile and wings. He has bare feet and legs, bare arms, and is beckoning or gesturing, the index finger of his left hand raised and his right arm outstretched.</p> <p>This is a detail from a <a href="103-La-Vita-Nuova-border">Art Noveau border</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/pages/103-La-Vita-Nuova-isolated-angel/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:39:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/pages/103-La-Vita-Nuova-isolated-angel/ Eros (Cherub with Bow), from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 28th April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/023-eros-cherub-with-bow/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/023-eros-cherub-with-bow/" title="Eros (Cherub with Bow), from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 28th April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/023-eros-cherub-with-bow-q93-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="Eros (Cherub with Bow)" title="Eros (Cherub with Bow), from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 28th April 2013" /></a></p> <p>An Eros, or cherub with a bow, from <a href="023-fantasy-romantic-border">this ornate Renaissance border</a>, a woodcut title page of a 1516 book.</p> <p>This cutout cherub illustration is white on a black background.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/023-eros-cherub-with-bow/">(read more...)</a></p> Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:39:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/023-eros-cherub-with-bow/ Full-page foliated border from 1478., from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 28th April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/003-foliated-border-from-1478-blank/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/003-foliated-border-from-1478-blank/" title="Full-page foliated border from 1478., from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 28th April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/003-foliated-border-from-1478-blank-q80-363x500.jpg" width="120" height="165" alt="Full-page foliated border from 1478." title="Full-page foliated border from 1478., from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 28th April 2013" /></a></p> <p>This ornate foliated border is festive (because I coloured it red) and swirly. It’s from the title page of a 1478 book, over 500 years old.</p> <p>See the <a href="003-foliated-border-from-1478">full title page</a>.</p> <p>Note that one side of the border is wider than the other; in a printed book the thicker (wider) side, the right here, goes on the side towards the outside edge of the page, so this border is a right-hand page. For a verse (left-hand page), flip the border horizontally so the thin side is on the right.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/003-foliated-border-from-1478-blank/">(read more...)</a></p> Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:34:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/003-foliated-border-from-1478-blank/ Foliated Decorative Capital Letter ``O'', from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 27th April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/003-initial-letter-o/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/003-initial-letter-o/" title="Foliated Decorative Capital Letter “O”, from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 27th April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/003-initial-letter-o-q75-500x500.jpg" width="120" height="120" alt="Foliated Decorative Capital Letter “O”" title="Foliated Decorative Capital Letter “O”, from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878), added on 27th April 2013" /></a></p> <p>This floriated letter “O” was used as an initial capital (a drop cap) on a title page inside <a href="003-foliated-border-from-1478">this ornate mediæval border</a>. The letter has an unusual spiral line round it, vines, leaves, and a strongly angled calligraphic stress. It dates from a book printed in 1478.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/003-initial-letter-o/">(read more...)</a></p> Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:51:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/003-initial-letter-o/ Two-wheeled plough. (From Harleian MS. No. 4374), from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 26th April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1380-Two-wheeled-plough/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1380-Two-wheeled-plough/" title="Two-wheeled plough. (From Harleian MS. No. 4374), from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 26th April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/tn/1380-Two-wheeled-plough-q85-500x250.jpg" width="120" height="60" alt="Two-wheeled plough. (From Harleian MS. No. 4374)" title="Two-wheeled plough. (From Harleian MS. No. 4374), from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 26th April 2013" /></a></p> <p>The two-wheeled plough here is pulled by a pair of oxen and has one man behind.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7467&CollID=8&NStart=4374">Harleian MS. 4374</a> is <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens</i>, by Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicholas de Gonesse, published between 1473 and 1480 according to the British Library catalogue.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1380-Two-wheeled-plough/">(read more...)</a></p> Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:38:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1380-Two-wheeled-plough/ Dedication Page, from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 21st April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication/" title="Dedication Page, from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 21st April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/tn/000-2-dedication-q75-340x500.jpg" width="120" height="176" alt="Dedication Page" title="Dedication Page, from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 21st April 2013" /></a></p> <p>This page has been repaired at some point in the past four or five hundred years, both with a small hole in the page and by reattaching to the binding.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication/">(read more...)</a></p> Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:41:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication/ Cherub (cutout), from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 21st April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-detail-cherub-cutout/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-detail-cherub-cutout/" title="Cherub (cutout), from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 21st April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/tn/000-2-dedication-detail-cherub-cutout-q90-357x500.jpg" width="120" height="168" alt="Cherub (cutout)" title="Cherub (cutout), from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 21st April 2013" /></a></p> <p>A cherub or “putto” isolated from his background.</p> <p>See also the <a href="000-2-dedication-cartouche">cherub in context</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-detail-cherub-cutout/">(read more...)</a></p> Sun, 21 Apr 2013 02:08:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-detail-cherub-cutout/ Cartouche from Dedication Page, from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 19th April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-cartouche/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-cartouche/" title="Cartouche from Dedication Page, from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 19th April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/tn/000-2-dedication-cartouche-q80-500x313.jpg" width="120" height="75" alt="Cartouche from Dedication Page" title="Cartouche from Dedication Page, from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 19th April 2013" /></a></p> <p>This woodcut features a scroll-work oval cartouche or frame, with a wide-brimmed hat on top of it. Two cherubs, or winged <i>putti</i>, one on either side, hold multi-tassled rope. I don’t know the significance of the broad-brimmed hat here.</p> <p>There is also a version of this image that I didn’t clean up as much, making a <a href="000-2-dedication-cartouche-shabby-chic">shabby-chiq vintage woodcut</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-cartouche/">(read more...)</a></p> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:14:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-cartouche/ Shabby-Chic Cartouche!, from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 18th April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-cartouche-shabby-chic/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-cartouche-shabby-chic/" title="Shabby-Chic Cartouche!, from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 18th April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/tn/000-2-dedication-cartouche-shabby-chic-q80-500x313.jpg" width="120" height="75" alt="Shabby-Chic Cartouche!" title="Shabby-Chic Cartouche!, from Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564), added on 18th April 2013" /></a></p> <p>This cartouche or frame is supported by two winged cherubs or <i>putti</i>, each holding rope with many tassels that connects to a broad-brimmed hat surmounting the frame. There is also a small cross. You can see the texture of the antique paper and also some show-through from the other side (the title page).</p> <p>There is also a cleaned-up version of this <a href="000-2-dedication-cartouche">scroll-work frame with cherubs</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-cartouche-shabby-chic/">(read more...)</a></p> Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:48:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Manfredi/pages/000-2-dedication-cartouche-shabby-chic/ Panik! Detail: Medusa, from Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900), added on 16th April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/08-128-panik-detail-medusa/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/08-128-panik-detail-medusa/" title="Panik! Detail: Medusa, from Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900), added on 16th April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/tn/08-128-panik-detail-medusa-q93-480x500.jpg" width="120" height="125" alt="Panik! Detail: Medusa" title="Panik! Detail: Medusa, from Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900), added on 16th April 2013" /></a></p> <p>Medusa has snakes for hair and don’t look, Medusa’s gaze will turn you to stone!</p> <p>This is a detail from <a href="08-128-panik">Panik! Panik!M</a> painted orange.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/08-128-panik-detail-medusa/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:41:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/08-128-panik-detail-medusa/ Panik! Panik!, from Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900), added on 13th April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/08-128-panik/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/08-128-panik/" title="Panik! Panik!, from Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900), added on 13th April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/tn/08-128-panik-q85-500x313.jpg" width="120" height="75" alt="Panik! Panik!" title="Panik! Panik!, from Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900), added on 13th April 2013" /></a></p> <p>Everyone in the dance hall runs screaming, fleeing for their lives, when the medusa demon appears!</p> <p>Note, this was a double-page spread in issue 8 of Jugend Magazine, and the line down the middle is where the pages joined.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/08-128-panik/">(read more...)</a></p> Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:42:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/08-128-panik/ Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front Cover, from Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900), added on 12th April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/02-025-front-cover/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/02-025-front-cover/" title="Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front Cover, from Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900), added on 12th April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/tn/02-025-front-cover-q75-379x500.jpg" width="120" height="158" alt="Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front Cover" title="Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front Cover, from Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900), added on 12th April 2013" /></a></p> <p>The front cover from Jugend Magazine from Issue Two, January 1900. It features a blindfolded woman barefoot, resting one foot on a wheel, holding a cornucopia from which roses are falling. She reaches out and moves the minute hand of a clock forward past XII. There are wings at her hand. The clock-face bears the signs of the zodiac and rays of light shoot out all around, from which we are to understand that the woman represents Time and the passage in January from one year to the next.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/02-025-front-cover/">(read more...)</a></p> Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:08:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/02-025-front-cover/ Ornate initial K from Germany, from Im Wechsel Der Tage (1885), added on 7th April 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/081-initial-k/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/081-initial-k/" title="Ornate initial K from Germany, from Im Wechsel Der Tage (1885), added on 7th April 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/tn/081-initial-k-q90-199x500.jpg" width="95" height="239" alt="Ornate initial K from Germany" title="Ornate initial K from Germany, from Im Wechsel Der Tage (1885), added on 7th April 2013" /></a></p> <p>This letter K was used as a drop capital (drop cap, decorative initial) in a book printed in Germany in the 1880s; it could be much older, of course.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/081-initial-k/">(read more...)</a></p> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 02:35:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/081-initial-k/ 145.---St. Justin and Alphonso I of Ferrara (Moretto), from Sacred and Legendary Art (1890), added on 27th March 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jameson-SacredAndLegendaryArt-VolII/pages/577-Saint-Justina-and-Alphonso-i-of-Ferrara/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jameson-SacredAndLegendaryArt-VolII/pages/577-Saint-Justina-and-Alphonso-i-of-Ferrara/" title="145.—St. Justin and Alphonso I of Ferrara (Moretto), from Sacred and Legendary Art (1890), added on 27th March 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Jameson-SacredAndLegendaryArt-VolII/tn/577-Saint-Justina-and-Alphonso-i-of-Ferrara-q75-361x500.jpg" width="120" height="166" alt="145.—St. Justin and Alphonso I of Ferrara (Moretto)" title="145.—St. Justin and Alphonso I of Ferrara (Moretto), from Sacred and Legendary Art (1890), added on 27th March 2013" /></a></p> <p>St. Justina is shown here with the unicorn, representing chasitity or virginity. The original painting by Bonvicino of Brescia (Il Moretto) was in Venice. This is the St, Justina of the Belvedere.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jameson-SacredAndLegendaryArt-VolII/pages/577-Saint-Justina-and-Alphonso-i-of-Ferrara/">(read more...)</a></p> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:13:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jameson-SacredAndLegendaryArt-VolII/pages/577-Saint-Justina-and-Alphonso-i-of-Ferrara/ Kneeling unicorn, from Sacred and Legendary Art (1890), added on 27th March 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jameson-SacredAndLegendaryArt-VolII/pages/577-detail-unicorn/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jameson-SacredAndLegendaryArt-VolII/pages/577-detail-unicorn/" title="Kneeling unicorn, from Sacred and Legendary Art (1890), added on 27th March 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Jameson-SacredAndLegendaryArt-VolII/tn/577-detail-unicorn-q85-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="Kneeling unicorn" title="Kneeling unicorn, from Sacred and Legendary Art (1890), added on 27th March 2013" /></a></p> <p>A unicorn with beard, mane and horn kneels, looking to the right.</p> <p>This is a detail from Fig. 145, <a href="577-Saint-Justina-and-Alphonso-i-of-Ferrara">St. Justin and Alphonso I of Ferrara</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jameson-SacredAndLegendaryArt-VolII/pages/577-detail-unicorn/">(read more...)</a></p> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:13:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jameson-SacredAndLegendaryArt-VolII/pages/577-detail-unicorn/ Claudius Looks On, from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 20th March 2013 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0118-Claudius-wallpaper-1/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0118-Claudius-wallpaper-1/" title="Claudius Looks On, from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 20th March 2013"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/tn/0118-Claudius-wallpaper-1-q75-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="Claudius Looks On" title="Claudius Looks On, from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 20th March 2013" /></a></p> <p>Detail of the <a href="0118-Claudius">Portrait of the Roman Emporer Claudius</a> showing just a face looking out to empty space; I made this so it could be used as a computer desktop, wallpaper, or root image.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0118-Claudius-wallpaper-1/">(read more...)</a></p> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:25:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0118-Claudius-wallpaper-1/