Procession of virgins: Saint Justine carrying a crown - symbol of martyrs. Mosaic; 6th century CE (Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy)
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Wanderdüne am Haff, 1947 - oil on canvas (Brücke-Museum Berlin)
Reliquary bust of Saint Margaret of Antioch (1465–70) – attributed to Nicolaus Gerhaert von Leyden
Before The Shot (At The Doctor’s) - Norman Rockwell, 1958
A Cycle of Wood Cuts Accompanied by a Very Nice Ode to Ingenious Doctors and Healers, self-published by Josef Váchal, Prague 1912
Johann Remmelin’s Pinax Microcosmographicus 1667
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he fame of Johan Remmelin (1583-1632) rests almost exclusively with the publication of his Catoptrum microcosmicum, probably the most extensive anatomical “flap book” ever produced. Remmelin was town physician in Ulm and later Augsberg where he also served as plague physician. While at Ulm, he conceived the notion of producing an anatomy that could be used to reveal in successive layers, the muscles, bones, and viscera of the human body. He employed one of the leading Augsburg artists, Lucas Kilian (1579-1637) to render the engravings which were based on Remmelin’s own drawings. In 1613, some of his friends had the copper plates engraved at their own expense and published them without Remmelin’s approval. In 1619, Remmelin published his own edition, complete with text and other explanatory material. This is the edition displayed here.
The work was printed using eight separate plates which were then cut apart and pasted together to make the three large plates. In some cases a single illustration may have as many as 15 successive layers which can be teased apart to reveal both surface and deep structures. In keeping with the practice of the day, Remmelin incorporates a variety of metaphysical and allegorical images and adages into the plates. The title, Catoptrum microcosmicum, [microcosmic mirror] reflects the classical notion of man as microcosm, i.e., the epitome, of the universe.
Catoptrum microcosmicum went through numerous editions and was published in Latin, German, French, English, and Dutch. The last edition was published in 1754. Although a highly popular work it was never practical as a teaching aid owing to the probable high cost of the book, its size, and the flaps themselves that were no doubt too delicate for use in a dissecting laboratory.
Between the cliffs
W. Small, from English illustration, ‘the sixties’ : 1857-70, by Gleeson White, London, 1903.
(Source: archive.org)
The book is eminenently “browsable” at the source.
chamber music, no. 6 (to James Joyce) - Dan Flavin, 1958
So different (and nice) compared to his other work.
Arthur Rackham. Cindrella…
Édouard Manet
Sur la plage (1873) - Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Portrait of Suzanne Leenhoff and Eugène Manet
Suzanne Leenhoff joined the Manet household as a piano instructor to the painter’s brother, Eugène. Leenhoff was a Dutch-born piano teacher of Édouard’s age with whom he had been romantically involved for approximately ten years. She also may have been Manet’s father mistress. In 1852, Leenhoff gave birth, out of wedlock, to a son, Léon Koella Leenhoff, whose father may have been either of the Manets. After the death of his father in 1862, Édouard married Suzanne in 1863.
Collage artist and painter Jim Harter was born in Lubbock, Texas, but has wandered the world in search of enlightenment and images. Harter is an “image archivist,” a self-defined profession which has produced fifteen major collections of engravings and rotogravures from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries for Dover and several other publishers. Harter has worked as a freelance illustrator for many magazines, book publishers, and newspapers, ranging from the Berkeley Barb to theNew York Times. Harter’s American Railroads of the Nineteenth Century was included by the “A List” as one of the exceptional books of 1998. His work has been cited in John and Joan Digby’s The Collage Handbook (Thames & Hudson, 1985), in Psychology Today, and elsewhere. His most recent collection of his collages is Initiations in the Abyss: A Surrealist Apocalypse (Wings Press, 2002). The illustrations inAlms for Oblivion are collaborations between Harter and the author.
John Currin. Fishermen (2002)
(Allendale Nativity)
Washington NGoA National Gallery of Art
Saint Roch, Francesco Francia, 1502
Francesco Raibolini (c. 1450 – January 5, 1517), called Francia, was an Italian painter, goldsmith, and medallist from Bologna, who was also director of the city mint.[1]
He trained with Marco Zoppo and was first mentioned as a painter in 1486. His earliest known work is the Felicini Madonna, which is signed and dated 1494. He worked in partnership with Lorenzo Costa, and was influenced by Ercole de’ Roberti’s and Costa’s style, until 1506, when Francia became a court painter in Mantua, after which time he was influenced more by Perugino and Raphael. He himself trained Marcantonio Raimondi and several other artists; he produced niellos, in which Raimondi first learnt to engrave, soon excelling his master, according to Vasari. Raphael’s Santa Cecilia is supposed to have produced such a feeling of inferiority in Francia that it caused him to die of depression
This x That:
Know This:
- Canada announces plans to withdraw from Kyoto Protocol, becoming first nation to do so; decision may be tied to “booming oil sands sector.”
- NATO sets December 31st as end date for training mission in Iraq.
- Newt Gingrich, who reportedly cheated on his first two wives, signs the Family Leader’s controversial fidelity pledge.
- Rick Perry’s latest gaffe: Mispronounces “Solyndra,” calls it a “country.”
Read This:
- Lawmaker furious at Lowe’s for pulling ads from All-American Muslim; company kinda-sorta apologizes, but won’t reinstate ads; Russell Simmons buys All-American Muslim spots, tells Lowe’s to keep its money.
- New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov and former Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin vie for support of anti-Putin protesters.
- North Korea threatens South with “unexpected consequences” over Christmas lights display near border.
- Latest Chris Paul trade deal falls apart.
- James Sallis has written a sequel to Drive.
- James Franco reviewed Breaking Dawn for The Paris Review.
The Other:
- NewsFeed: Recep Tayyip Erdogan: People’s Choice for TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year.
- Tea x Time List: Pitchfork’s Top 100 Tracks of 2011.
- Above: From Kelly McCollam’s Salt of the Earth: Van Gogh’s Starry Night recreated with spices and food coloring.
