#The engraving

[lukavelimirov]

The allegory of arithmetic. Engraving from "The Pearl of Philosophy" by Gregor Reisch, 1503.

On the right in the foreground, Pythagoras uses a counting board with chips.

Counting tokens appeared in the Middle Ages, initially they were used for arithmetic calculations on chalkboards, including in accounting. Their appearance is associated with the name of Herbert of Avrilacqua (c. 946-1003), the future Pope Sylvester II. It was he who recommended using special quasi—coins with Roman numerals or special numerical signs - vertices for counting on the boards. This is how counting tokens appeared, and they were also made by money minters.

In many countries, tokens were used as a bargaining chip. With the advent of the first banks in Italy in the 13th century, they began to be actively used by bankers, money changers and merchants. Some French banknotes were minted at state mints, and royal portraits were often depicted on their obverse. It was difficult to distinguish such tokens from ordinary copper money — they probably circulated with them. In Germany, tokens were actively used in card games as money substitutes, similar to modern casino chips.

Over the course of several centuries, thousands of varieties of tokens of various types and from all kinds of materials have been minted in different parts of Europe: alloys of copper, bronze, brass, tinplate, base silver and souvenirs — even gold. Counting tokens existed until the 19th century, when people all over Europe learned to count in a column and to themselves.

[blistexenthusiast]

engraved carabiners

[koenji]

victorian mussel shaped vinaigrette in handcrafted silver, engraved 'Lucy'. 1876.

[weirdlookindog]

“…. e con feroce Piglio di scherno a contemplar si stava Il desolato loco e il elei sereno”

Gino De' Bini (1856–1918) - Lucifero, 1887

illustration for the poem by Mario Rapisardi

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[occultesotericart]

[title]

“May I rest my weary head on your shoulder?” (insp.)

In the Mood for Love (2000), Rafiki (2018), Cold War (2018), Your Name Engraved Herein (2020), But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), Moonlight (2016), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), And Then We Danced (2019), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Lovesong (2016), God’s Own Country (2017), The Handmaiden (2016), Notorious (1946)

[enchantedbook]

Αrt by Lionel Lindsay, (1874 - 1961).

[ilions-end]

everyone shhh for a second and look at this ink doodle of diomedes and glaucus hugging by 18th century painter antoine-jean gros

[portalibis]

Luna from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets" c. 1529 by Master I.B. German

[honeybee-arts]

Employee of the month

Helly R piece for severance, based on Norman Rockwell's "Double Take" Saturday Evening Post Cover from March 1, 1941. props to this show, weird punk art saves lives

[tiffanysabrinatattoo]

Arms and Armour (1911) Auguste Demmin

[kharacore]

via @/t.archivist

[mauricetheblurst]

Your grace, your humble paladin requests naught but a ball of yarn and cup of milk for his service

from a medieval painting detail seen in a meme (and thus historically accurate)

(edit: it's apparently from The Brave Little Tailor by Andrej Dugin and Olga Dugina, thx to @tickfleato for the correction)

[id: three images of a cat wearing cat-shaped knight armor, with only the front paws and tail sticking out. the first image is a relief print, the second image shows the process of making the eraser stamp with which the print was made, and the third image is the detail from the medieval painting. end id]

[la-belle-histoire]

Guinevere and Iseult: Cartoon for Stained Glass, William Morris. 1862.

[weirdlookindog]

Martin van Maële (1863–1926) - The Fall of the House of Usher

from the book 'Dix contes d’Edgar Poë', 1912

engraved by Eugène Dété

[occultesotericart]

1600’s anatomical engraving with alchemical symbolism /// by Gerhard Altzenbach