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Medievally Yours

A black-and-white, detailed illustration of a fish. The fish has a rounded, stocky body covered with textured patterns resembling scales and bumps. Its head is large with a prominent, somewhat grumpy expression, and it has short fins.Snotolf [Cyclopterus lumpus] MPM.HB.03961

Rumple has posted Antwerp's Plantin-Moretus Museum collection of 14,000 woodblock prints, now online as Public Domain / CC 0 high resolution TIFF images with tags and search capabilities. We stan the lumpy grumpy fish.

11/26/24
by taz

The tiny Paris pastel shop that changed art history

At an angle, a wooden box of 48 pastel half-sticks in two trays of four rows, with top ranging from puce to red to yellow to white, and the bottom tray ranging from lilac to teal to green to grey to black. The sticks are noticeably handmade and each stamped ROC. Part of the box's wooden lid can be seen to the right, with fanciful dragon crest and PARIS emblazoned on it.

"The Maison du Pastel shop, off rue Rambuteau, opens only on Thursday afternoons. In this small window of time, Isabelle and Margaret serve their customers like they are selling elixirs for the soul."

... If you missed it, this post on La Maison du Pastel, the Parisian shop selling handmade pastels since the18th century, is -- like their wares -- just lovely.

12/21/22
by taz

“My heart started beating a little bit faster ...”

Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today

Filthy light thief made a great post about Denise Murrell's student thesis that became "a groundbreaking show about how black people have been pictured across art history," and which is now an exhibit at Musée d'Orsay in Paris, where French masterpieces are renamed after black subjects.

04/06/19
by taz

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