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This is a paradox in the cocktail of qualities that define sprezzatura — the achievement of eloquence and honesty through deception and concealment.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/baldassare-castiglione-the-book-of-the-courtier
For the Polish educator Antoni Jażwiński, history was best represented by an abstract grid.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/visualizing-history-the-polish-system
Ox-faced children, elderly women sprouting horns, and cloven minds — all features attributed to Edward Jenner’s vaccine against smallpox. Introducing us to the original anti-vaxxers, Erica X Eisen explores the “vacca” in the first-ever vaccine: its bovine origins and the widespread worry that immunity came with beastly side effects.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mark-of-the-beast-georgian-britains-anti-vaxxer-movement
Ox-faced children, elderly women sprouting horns, and cloven minds — all features attributed to Edward Jenner’s vaccine against smallpox. Introducing us to the original anti-vaxxers, Erica X Eisen explores the “vacca” in the first-ever vaccine: its bovine origins and the widespread worry that immunity came with beastly side effects.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mark-of-the-beast-victorian-britains-anti-vaxxer-movement
Angels emerge from avian eggs and a figure climbs a ladder to the moon, in Blake's unique take on the emblems tradition.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise
Inspired by Jules Verne’s scientific novels, The electric life has garnered retrospective praise for successfully anticipating much of modern life.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/albert-robida-la-vie-electrique
The nineteenth-century images collected here concern hatha yoga, the yoga of physical discipline.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hatha-yoga-images-from-the-joga-pradipika
This month marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Baudelaire’s birth, the French poet famous for his descriptions of the flâneur: a man of the crowd, who thrived in the metropolis’ multitude. Following Baudelaire through 19th-century Paris, Matthew Beaumont discovers a parallel archetype — the convalescent hero of modernity — who emerges from the sickbed into city streets with a feverish curiosity.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/charles-baudelaire-and-the-convalescent-flaneur
Gathering over 500 prints, paintings, illustrations, sketches, photographs, doodles, and everything in between, Affinities is a carefully curated journey exploring echoes and connections across more than two millennia of visual culture.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/04/affinities-a-book-of-images
Images from Agostino Ramelli's Diverse and Artificial Machines, which despite their detail obscure as much as they reveal.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/agostino-ramelli-theatre-of-machines