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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much attention and attained as much celebrity as the fabled manuscripts of Timbuktu.
These lively prints are from the series Libellus Novus Elementorum Latinorum by Polish goldsmith Jan Christian Bierpfaff (1600-ca.1690) and engraved by Jeremias Falck (1610–1677). These hugely imaginative, abstract and fluid prints come to life on the page. Bierpfaff worked as an apprentice at the Mackensen family of metalworkers in Kracow, a group, who, according … Continue reading "Bierpfaff’s Alphabet of Organic Type (c. 1650)" The post Bierpfaff’s Alphabet of Organic Type (c. 1650) appeared first on Flashbak.
My podcast cohost Agnes Callard has been thinking lately about why we don’t have more deep conversations wherein we try to figure out important things together.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the space agencies of the United States and Russia began working together like never before. The culmination of the new partnership was the Shuttle-Mir program, a mission that took place over several years and saw American astronauts working together on the Mir space station alongside their Russian counterparts. The […]