Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

MEMLING Hans St John Altarpiece (right wing) 1474-79

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MEMLING, Hans St John Altarpiece (St. John the Evangelist) 1474-79
Oil on oak panel, 176 x 78,9 cm (right wing)
Hans Memling Museum, Brugge, Belgium

Another detail

How can I tell you what really happened?

Tags: 1400, apocalypse, book, evangelist, hariberth, imagination, john, memling, saint, vision, writing


ARCIMBOLDO, Giuseppe The Librarian c.1566

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ARCIMBOLDO, Giuseppe The Librarian c.1566
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian, 1527-1593

Oil on canvas, 97 x 71 cm Skoklosters Slott, Bålsta (Stockholm)

Another version
Good colours version


Tags: 1500, arcimboldo, books, librarian, stockholm, story

WEYDEN, Rogier van der Annunciation Triptych (central panel, detail) c. 1440

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WEYDEN, Rogier van der Annunciation Triptych (central panel, detail) c. 1440

Oil on oak panel
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Tags: weyden, annunciation, triptych, 1400, book, paris, holding, hariberth

Bamberg Apocalypse, Folio 1r, John receives his revelation, 1000-1020

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Bamberg Apocalypse, Folio 1r, John receives his revelation, 1000-1020
To get an idea...


The Bamberg Apocalypse is an 11th century richly illuminated manuscript containing the Book of Revelations and a Gospel Lectionary. It was created in the scriptorium at Reichenau between 1000 and 1020. (Wikipedia)

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