#17th century book

[heaveninawildflower]

Siberian white crane, peacock, owl and swan taken from 'Illustrated Herbal' (1644) by Zhou Hu and Zhou X.

Colour on silk.

Images and text information courtesy Wellcome Collection.

[memesonnets]

Hi my name is Don Quixote of La Mancha the Knight of the Rueful Figure and I have a rueful figure (that's how I got my name) with purple bruised ribs and tall stature and gaunt features and hair turning gray and a rather hooked aquiline nose and large black drooping mustaches and a lot of people tell me I look like Amadís of Gaul (AN: if u don’t know who he is begone!). I’m not related to Lady Oriana but I wish I was because she’s an incomparable flowering beauty. I’m a knight errant but some of my teeth and grinders are missing. I have long lank limbs. I’m also a defender of damsels, protector of orphans, succourer of the needy, righter of wrongs, undoer of injustice, and I wander a magic countryside called the mountains of Spain where I’m in my first year of knighthood (I’m forty-nine). I’m a gentleman (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly armor. I love my great-grandfather's forgotten corner of the house and I cobble together all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a doublet of fine cloth with matching shoes and velvet breeches and a helmet, morion, visor, breastplate and backpiece. I was riding outside La Mancha. It was early morning so the rays of the sun fell obliquely and the heat did not distress me, which I was very happy about. A lot of giants stared at me. I put up my pasteboard visor at them.

[0039pf-third-blog-hooray]

[escapismsworld]

"Bellona (detail)"

1633

Rembrandt

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 280 is an abbreviated version of the decretals compiled by Raymond of Peñafort in the 1230s by order of Pope Gregory IX. It was written in France in the second half of the 13th century, bound in sheepskin over wooden boards in the 15th-century, and attached to this chain in the 17th century.

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[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldCrocDay + #ManuscriptMonday :

Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) having its teeth cleaned by the "Crocodile Bird" (Trochilus), from a 1615 copy of the Kitāb al-Ḥayawān (The Book of Animals) by al-Jāḥiẓ (c. 776–868/869 CE). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D140inf.

[chiropteracupola]

c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jan Lievens (1607-1674) "Still Life with Books" (c. 1627-1628) Oil on panel Dutch Golden Age Located in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

[classic-art-favourites]

Old Woman Reading by Gerrit Dou, 1631-1632.

[skitskatdacat63]

I think a lot about this painting that was, presumably, given to Fernando at the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix, which there is just zero explanation for it, other than these pics:

Where is it now????? It better be hanging up in a place of honor in one of his houses istg!

But what makes this better is that after he crashed out from that race, he tweeted a samurai quote 😭 I like to imagine him just nonsensically mumbling samurai quotes while staring at this painting in despair

[heaveninawildflower]

Botanical illustrations taken from 'Plantes, oiseaux, quadrupèdes, poissons' by Louis Feuillée (French 1660-1732).

Bibliothèque nationale de France.

[thebeautifulbook]

ESTHER SCROLLS (Amsterdam, c.1641) Designed by Megillat Esther (b. c.1618-1619)

“Shalom Italia was one of the most innovative and influential Jewish artist of the 17th Century.

[lionofchaeronea]

Romulus and Remus, engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) after Giulio Romano (1499-1546)

[escapismsworld]

Let us not forget that this body type was the blueprint in art 🗣️

They had bellies, they had rolls, they had thighs.

1. Allegory of Victory by Louis Le Nain (1635)

2. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1480s)

3. Bathsheba at Her Bath by Rembrandt (1654)

4. Venus with a Mirror by Titian (1555)

5. Diana and Actaeon by Guiseppe Cesari (1602)

6. Bathsheba by Artemisia Gentileschi (1645)

7. Venus and Adonis by Peter Paul Rubens (1635)

8. The Judgement of Paris by Peter Paul Rubens (1636)

9. Venus and the Lute Player by Titian (1560)

10. The Combat of Ares and Athena by Jacques Louis David (1771)

[upennmanuscripts]

This little fellow is Ms. Codex 302, a codex listing offices of the Republic of Venice in Italy, Dalmatia and the Levant, with salaries. It's minimally decorated with rubricated headings and initials, and was written in Venice between 1575 and 1650.

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[othmeralia]

Come on in, the water's fine!⁠

Maier, Michael. Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, Germany: Johann-Theodor de Bry, 1618.