Showing posts with label 1600s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1600s. Show all posts
Saturday, October 23, 2021

Peter Paul Troschel (1620-1667) ~ Dialectica, Etching on laid, 1600s.

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Saturday, January 28, 2017

Book Plate , Isis writing the mysteries, from Magic history of the supernatural world and fatality through time and peoples by Pitois Christian 1870

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Born today...John Wallis, November 23, 1616, Ashford, United Kingdom. Mathematician and cryptographer who introduce the infinity symbol in 1655 in his De sectionibus conicis. image: Pamela Colman Smith (1878 – 1951) illustration from the Waite Tarot

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Jean Toutin...bookplate...1619

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Jusepe de Ribera 1591–1652... study drawing...Satyr

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more  Satyrs
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Hendrick Hondius... POST FUNERA VITA: AFTER BURIAL, LIFE..1690

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Monograms of deceased artists on pyramids: AD (Albrecht Dürer) L (Lucas van Leyden)  MVH (Maarten van Heemskerk) AG (Heinrich Aldegreve...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Bookplate...Francisco Hernández...1651...natural treasures of the new world

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Monday, October 3, 2011

MURILLO Y VELARDE, TOMÁS DE...ratado de raras, y peregrinas yervas . . . y sus maravillosas virtudes 1674

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  a work by the physician to King Philip IV of Spain on the qualities and medicinal properties of southernwood, ox-eye camomile, and man...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Cherubino Alberti... Fame blowing trumpet...1628

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Friday, September 16, 2011

Antiquarian tableware... Fortunio Liceti 1600s Satyr

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more wonders from the folk at BibliOdyssey
Friday, September 9, 2011

Hans Troschel (1585-1628) after Simon Vouet (1590-1649)... Satyrs

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click on image to enlarge Satyrs admiring the anamorphosis of an Elephant; eight satyrs are pointing at a reflection cast by the elephan...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Gerrit van Honthorst.... Saint Sebastian... c1623

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click on image to enlarge The Love Song of St. Sebastian T. S. Eliot I would come in a shirt of hair I would come with a lamp in th...
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Friday, July 8, 2011

Boetius Adams Bolswert. (ca. 1580-1633).. emblem..

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click image to enlarge What is mine in heaven and so what should I want on earth from Thee? from the Pia Desideria Emblematis Elegiis ...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677... Decorative Object Print...

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previous HOLLAR
Monday, February 28, 2011

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718)... Dream Alphabet ...1683

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from my dream book! Alfabeto in Sogno (Dream Alphabet) by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli published in 1683 more here from what used to b...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Jeremias Drexel... Opera omnia....1662

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