Showing posts with label 1500's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1500's. Show all posts

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Monday, July 18, 2011

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Prospero Fontana (1512–1597) ... Symbolic Questions... 1574





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Prospero Fontana's designs are often obscure in their iconography, their significance as reflections of quattrocento symbols and hieroglyphics have been analysed by Edgar Wind in several sections of Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance. These striking illustrations have been shown to have influenced Blake and Samuel Palmer after two centuries of neglect.


Achille Bocchi's Symbolicarum Quaestionum, the full book of wonders
with more of Fontanas illustrations  here





Friday, February 25, 2011

Cesare Nebbia... sketch...





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Moses and the brazen serpent c 1588 Pen and  ink



Saturday, November 20, 2010

Johannes Sadeler ...Bacchus, Amor & Music...1500's




Sadeler, Johannes bacchus amor music
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from Six Little Poems in Prose
by Charles Baudelaire

translated by Aleister Crowley