Back to Black

This exceptionally rare 17th c. death notice is printed in white on black paper with a deep bite. Just ... stunning.

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Albrecht Dürer Meets. . .
MAD Magazine!?

I've never seen a Dürer Fortifications manual where the building edges line up so perfectly!
Or one where the tower gets resized quite so hilariously.
Coincidence?

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This gorgeous copy once owned by Philip Hofer is at #NYPL Prints!

Does That Bustle Go All The Way Around?

#Costume #Renaissance #FoldoutFRIDAY
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TINIEST Triumph?

Albrecht Dürer's entire woodcut Triumphal Car of Maximilian wouldn't fit in this small book, so someone improvised and redid it as a much-smaller engraving!
It's in a 1606 text compilation by Dürer's pal Pirckheimer, who advised him on the triumphal iconography.
#FoldoutFriday #intaglio

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Some #FoldOutFriday to celebrate the end of the first week back at work! This beauty from the 17th century was one of the most popular surgical texts of its day: 'Marrow of Chirurgery with The Anatomy of Humane Bodies According to the Most Modern Anatomists' (1685)

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HOLY... Martin Luther?!!

Was NOT expecting this 1565 English anti-Protestant propaganda broadside to jump out when I was browsing the stacks the other day.
Definitely yelped when it unfolded! Might have blasphemed? #FoldoutFriday

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