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[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 425

A book of books

Photographs by Abelardo Morell

Bulfinch Press 2006

Perhaps best known for his large-scale camera obscura works, Cuban-American photographer Abelardo Morell here turns his lens to the beauty of the book and the printed word. Originally published in 2002 in a large-format (12” x 12”) format, this reduced-format edition (9.25” x 9.25”) is an ode to the different and varied forms books can take. From a book smaller than a paper clip to a digital book to warped and deformed books, Morell captures the intriguing shapes, textures, and ways in which books can appear.

[thefugitivesaint]

Helen Sewell (1896-1957), ''A Book of Myths: Selections from Bulfincher's Age of Fable'', 1942 Source

[daffolou]

all this time - louis tomlinson / the light between us - maria popova / she is beauty we are world class - louis tomlinson / the fire next time - james baldwin / the greatest - louis tomlinson / the age of fable - thomas bulfinch

[frenchcurious]

Conçu par Wenceslao Sarmiento dans les années 1950, l'ancien centre financier de Phoenix est aujourd'hui un studio d'architecture et de design, rénové par le cabinet Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott en 2015. Photo : Nic Lehoux. - source MCM Daily.

[puppydogwithlargeeyes]

did anyone else go insane about Bradamante and Ruggiero in Bulfinch’s Mythology or was it just me.

[silkdamask-blog]

18th c waistcoats hold an endless appeal for me, esp. when connected to #architecture Here, an English waistcoat (1780-90), replete w/architectural ornament & embroidered w/silk & chenille, graceful ribbons & appliquéd, painted silk medallions would be at home in a #RobertAdam or #CharlesBulfinch interior. @V_and_A

[rhongomyniad-jr]

I'm still not over the time when Queen Guinevere told Lancelot that he was unworthy of her, so he dropped everything and just, ran off to the forest and disappeared for 3 days????

[streetsofsalem]

Salem 1799

I always tell my students forget dates, you can always look them up, dates are a terrible way to learn history, but sometimes dates just stand out: 1348, 1517, 1776, 1789, 1914. The other day I was engaged in some endnote-editing and somehow, the date 1799 just started jumping out at me: it suddently seemed like the most important date in Salem’s history! Why? A lot of building mostly: of two of…

[fata-vocant]

The Conscience of the King (guilt + theatre)

1, 3, 5, 7: from Ibycus, retold by Thomas Bulfinch, in Bulfinch’s Mythology

2, 4, 6, 8: from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 484

Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomy of Man - Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Martin Clayton and Ron Philo

Bulfinch Press 1992

So, let’s get the fact that this book is an excellent collection of Leonardo’s anatomical drawings out of the way up front. That said—this next bit is quoted from the foreword—“Her Majesty the Queen possesses, in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, more than six hundred drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, the finest such collection in the world.”

But how? Well, it’s a very convoluted story. According to the foreword, upon Leonardo’s death, they were passed to his favorite pupil, Francesco Melzi. After Melzi’s death, the collection was purchased by sculptor Pompeo Leoni, who had them bound into books. Upon Leoni’s death in 1609, one volume was “acquired” and brought to England by Thomas Howard, advisor to King Charles I. Ultimately, they were “recorded for certain as being in the possession of Queen Mary II in 1690.”

So, were they stolen? I don’t know. But I know this: Italy’s never going to see them again.

[rabbitcruiser]

The Faneuil Hall opened to public on September 24, 1742.

[world4]

Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest and his Adventures.

CHAPTER XXXIV. ROBIN HOOD OF SHERWOOD FOREST. In this our spacious isle I think there is not one,But he of ROBIN HOOD hath heard and Little John;And to the end of time the tales shall ne'er be doneOf Scarlock, George a Green, and Much the miller's son,Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon madeIn praise of ROBIN HOOD, his outlaws and their trade. DRAYTON. Nottingham. Sherwood…

[thetetra]

Book suggestion post. Please suggest a book of mythology that you enjoyed, who translated it and anything else we might need to find this book.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

As a RRverse fan AND a mythology fan i approve this message

Look I have absolutely no problem if people are introduced to Greek mythology by Percy Jackson series or Lore Olympus or whatever but please don’t derive your information for these books alone. They’re at times very inaccurate, myth wise as well as character wise. Please do read, or at least try reading the greek mythology. It’s fun and interesting too.

[kosovare-madridista]

Powder Room - Bathroom

Design inspiration for a transitional powder room

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, November 4th in 1946, noted and often controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was born in the Floral Park neighborhood of Queens in New York City. Perhaps best-remembered for his homoerotic imagery, Mapplethorpe's subject matter focused on statuesque male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and highly formal portraits of artists and celebrities, mostly in black and white.

His portraits of Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Peter Gabriel, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Louise Bourgeois, and bodybuilder Lisa Lyon, among many others, have become iconic. Perhaps the most notable controversy related to Mapplethorpe centers on his 1989 exhibition, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in DC and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, which sparked heated debates about obscenity and the use of public funds to display such works. The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center was even brought to trial on charges of obscenity, but was exonerated by a jury. Robert Mapplethorpe died in 1989 at age 42 due to complications from HIV/AIDS.

The images shown here come from several publications held in Special Collections:

Robert Mapplethorpe by Peter Weiermair, published in Frankfurt am by Frankfurter Kunstverein in 1981.

Robert Mapplethorpe by Richard Marshall, with essays by Richard Howard and Ingrid Sischy, published in New York by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1988.

Some Women by Robert Mapplethorpe, with an introduction by Joan Didion, published in Boston by Boston : Bulfinch Press, 1989 in 1989.

Pictures: Robert Mapplethorpe edited and designed by Dimitri Levas, published by Arena Editions in 1999.

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