A Passion series in which ornamental motifs invade the Christ’s narrative.
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A Passion series in which ornamental motifs invade the Christ’s narrative.
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A form of WWI trench art in which soldiers carved names and images into leaves.
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Of all the caricatures of Napoleon Bonaparte, representations of the French emperor as a miniscule megalomaniac continue to haunt the historical imagination to an unparalleled degree. Peter W. Walker searches for the origins of “Little Boney” in the early 19th-century caricatures of James Gillray, the English illustrator who took Napoleon down a peg by diminishing his reputation and scale to the point of absurdity.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/little-boney
An uncanny collection of folk tales written and illustrated by Sigmund Freud’s niece.
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An uncanny collection of folk tales written by Sigmund Freud’s niece.
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Haunted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, these visualisations of proverbs look backward to uncertain origins.
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Photographs of tattoos by Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s first professional tattoo artist.
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What can we learn from observing the progression of spring — a hawthorn’s first flowering, the return of birdsong on a particular day? Hugh Aldersey-Williams explores the lifelong calendrical project of Robert Marsham, the Norfolk naturalist considered Britain's first phenologist.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/from-snowdrop-to-nightjar
Set of spectacular engravings of insects and their floral abodes — one of the first natural histories of Suriname.
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Britain's first clay animation film imagines a malleable substance spontaneously giving rise to manifold forms.
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