"Polygraphice is an art, so much imitating Nature, as that by proportional lines with answerable Colours, it teacheth to represent to the life (and that in plano) the forms of all corporeal things, with their respective passions."   Polygraphice; or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting,...

10 January, 2022 /

Have the feeling that you are in a tunnel and can't see the end? We do, too. For a view of tunnels more expressive than ours, visit our most recent digital exhibition, Tunnel Vision. Based on our 2018 physical exhibition, Tunnel Vision was the result of a...

03 September, 2020 /

Tomorrow is easy, but today is uncharted, Desolate, reluctant as any landscape To yield what are laws of perspective After all only to the painter's deep Mistrust, a weak instrument though Necessary. Of course some things Are possible, it knows, but it doesn't know Which ones. Some day we will try To do...

22 June, 2020 /

In Spring 2019 students from Spanish 3070 Literary Analysis attended the Rare Books Classroom to consider the physical aspects of literary texts and to decipher first-hand the impact of examining a book and text as physical object. The viewing offered students a chance to see...

16 May, 2019 /

“Colour and light have an important relationship in the act of seeing…colours multiply among themselves, but, like the elements, there are only four true colours from which other species of colour are born. There is red, the colour of fire; blue, of air; green, of...

17 July, 2017 /