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...
"That a Christian soule doth freely impart its Love and goodwill unto others, as a pleasant flower its virtue and smell: That being we are Plants of God, we ought not to be discouraged by any outward calamity that might befall us, but presse forward...
And when he opened the fourthe seale I herde the voyce of the fourthe beste saye: come and se. And I loked and beholde a grene horsse and his name that sat on him was deeth and hell folowed after him and power was geven...
"Some of the great images of world art began as prints, perhaps using only a block of wood and a carving tool." -- Nancy Berkoff, "Art of Print At Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach" Rare Books contributed images from five of its books...
“Also mein allerliebster bruder, sterck dich ynn dem Hern und sey gestrost ynn seiner mechtigen krafft, auff das du erkennest, tragest, liebest, und lobest aus gutwilligem hertzen, den veterlichen willen Gottes. Du werdest ledig odder nicht. Das du aber solches vermogest zu ehren seines heyligen...
تاريخ راشد افندي تاريخ راشد قسطنطنية : ابراهيم من متفرقه كان The first Turkish printing house was established in Istanbul on December 14, 1727. The director of the press was Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674-1745), a Hungarian convert to Islam. In 1726 Muteferrika sent a report on the efficiency of...
“Love is enough: though the World be a-waning And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, & the sea a dark wonder, And this...
The Practice of Ukiyo-e Woodblock Keiji Shinohara, instructor August 5-6 Friday & Saturday, 10:00-6:00 Book Arts Studio, J. Willard Marriott Library, Level 4 Registration for this workshop is closed. Leave the brayers, pallet knives, rag papers, and presses behind, and journey eastward. With brushes and barrens, master printmaker Keiji Shinohara...
“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” — Hebrews 8:11, New King James Version HE KAINE DIATHEKE Paris: [Antoine Augereau for] Simon de Colines, [29 November or 22 December] 1534 BS1965 1534 This is the first...