Rare first millennium Bible comes to New York
Rare first millennium Bible comes to New York
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Sixteen bibles from around 1000 to 1240 will be on view
Sixteen Romanesque Biblical manuscripts, known as “The Idda Collection” (around 980-1240), go on display (and offer) at the Les Enluminures gallery in New York (9 April-2 May). The manuscripts range in price from $180,000 to $6.5m, at the top of which is a tenth-century Latin Liesborn Gospel Book that is still in almost perfect condition. In 1945, it was described as “one of the most valuable manuscripts of the Gospels in private hands.” “If that was valid seventy years ago, it is even truer now,” says Christopher de Hamel, a senior specialist at the gallery. The manuscripts come from a European family who named their collection after Saint Idda, the only Swiss female saint.
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I'll Never Ever Look At Books The Same Again After Seeing These Hidden Messages.
Guess what: your copy of the Canterbury Tales may actually be more exciting than you think (sorry, Mr. Chaucer). It's very possible that your battered, old copy of the book contains some fore-edge painting, which is an illustration or painting that is hidden on the edge of the pages of the book. The technique allegedly dates back to the 1650s and we have no idea why people went through the trouble of painting on their old works of literature, but thanks to Colossal, now we know they are there.
You can see the painting by bending together the pages of the book, just so you can see a small piece of each page.
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As impressive as this is, we can't imagine why someone would commit countless hours to making these hidden images.
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Although, in the 1800s, the ladies would have been mighty impressed.
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No matter why people originally painted the edge of their books, now these tiny works of art are being sold for hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of dollars. I have a feeling me drawing on the edge of my old college textbooks with Sharpie wouldn't have the same effect... Here are two other examples of for-edge paintings.
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Good morning - Ernest Lawson painting
Ernest Lawson (American, 1873 - 1939)
Spring Morning 1913
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Ernest Lawson, a progressive artist and member of a group of artists called The Eight, achieved early recognition with his impressionist landscape paintings but later in life experienced personal tragedy and artistic isolation. Born in Nova Scotia in 1873, Lawson studied at the Art Students League, New York, from 1891 to 1892 and took summer classes in Cos Cob, Connecticut, under J. Alden Weir and John Twachtman. Lawson’s early work has delicate tones and harmonious textures reminiscent of Twachtman’s style. While living in France from 1893 to 1896, Lawson briefly attended the Académie Julian. During this time, he met the Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley, an encounter that confirmed Lawson's love of painting outdoors, and his first success came when the Paris Salon accepted two paintings in 1894. Returning to New York in 1898, Lawson concentrated on certain sites of upper Manhattan—their light, seasons, and times of day—a body of work that marked the height of his career. These characteristic works depicting the semi-industrial landscape of New York and the lower Hudson River employ thick impasto, strong contour lines, and areas of bold, yet harmonious color to create highly structured compositions that appeared quite progressive at the time. They are often constructed of horizontal bands denoting land, water, and sky, while a delicate network of vertical lines creates foreground grasses and trees that reach past the middle ground toward a hazy horizon.
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Spring Morning, Haverstock Hill 1881
George Clausen (1852 – 1944)
Spring Morning, Haverstock Hill 1881
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Maximilian Lenz - A Song of Spring
Maximilian Lenz (1860-1948)
A Song of Spring 1913
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The Tea Hour - Herman Richir painting
Herman Richir (1866-1942)
The Tea Hour c.1896
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View of the Brooklyn Bridge
Emile Renouf (1845-1894)
View of the Brooklyn Bridge 1889
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Good morning - A Summer Day
Giovanni Segantini (1858 - 1899)
A Summer Day 1903
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Good morning - A Golden Hour
Florence Fuller (1867-1946)
A Golden Hour 1905
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Good morning - Summer flowers
John William Godward (1861-1922)
Summer flowers 1903
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John William Godward (9 August 1861 - 13 December 1922) was an English painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite / Neo-Classicist era.
He was a protege of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema but his style of painting fell out of favour with the arrival of painters like Picasso. He committed suicide at the age of 61 and is said to have written in his suicide note that "the world was not big enough" for him and a Picasso.
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His already estranged family, who had disapproved of him becoming an artist, were ashamed of his suicide and burned his papers. No photographs of Godward are known to survive.
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Good morning - Soiree D'ete
Emile Claus (1849-1924)
Soiree D'ete 1895
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Emile Claus was born on 27 September 1849, in Sint-Eloois-Vijve, a village in West-Flanders (Belgium), at the banks of the river Lys. Emile was the twelfth child in a family of thirteen. Father Alexander was a grocer-publican and for some time town councillor. Mother Celestine Verbauwhede came from a Brabant skipper’s family and had her hands full with her offspring.
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Good morning - Julio Romero de Torres painting
Julio Romero de Torres (1874–1930)
Un patio andaluz (Pereza andaluza) c.1900
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Good morning - Goatherd with Her Flock
Ernest Bieler (Swiss, 1863-1948)
Goatherd with Her Flock
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At the turn of the century, Ernest Biéler was practising two styles of painting at once and, consequently, pursuing virtually two careers: one closer to his heart, tending toward Realism, and the other based on status-seeking within the Symbolist movement. Ernest Biéler's Realism was based on love for his country... In the 1890s, Modernism meant rejecting Realism in favour of a more spiritual art which, at its most colourful and decorative, became Art Nouveau. Ernest Biéler resisted Internationalism and Symbolism, which gradually disappeared from his painting. But he remained ambivalent about them for years. Torn between the two painting styles ... he ended up practising both. His contemporaries .. asked him whether he was an idealist or a realist. "An artist can aspire to be both," Ernest Biéler replied. "One does not exclude the other. ..National sentiment is not irrelevant to art."
It is worth noting that Ernest Biéler's idealism was profoundly influenced by what he called "decoration", the term used by Mauris Denis in 1890 in his Theories.
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Good morning - Konstantin Razumov painting
Konstantin Razumov, 1974 ~ Impressionist painter
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Good morning - Henry Yeend King painting
John Henry Yeend King (1855–1924)
Their Favorite Spot
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Good morning - On the banks of the Lys
Emile Claus (1849-1924)
On the banks of the Lys 1896
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Good morning - JIA LU painting
JIA LU painting
By combining classical oil painting and contemporary aesthetics, JIA LU has created a style that calls to us. Her sources of inspiration are international. Her work has philosophical depth. Her imagery evokes mystery.
BORN IN CHINA IN 1954, Jia Lu grew up in a family of artists. She came to an early appreciation of the beauty and power of the human figure through her parents, who were both professional artists. She worked as a nurse, a film and television actor, a naval officer, an art editor for a magazine and as a professional basketball trainee before enrolling in the Central Academy of Art and Design to begin her professional training as an artist.
JIA LU was already an accomplished figure painter in Chinese media when she left China for Canada in 1983. But it was while working as a research assistant in the Faculty of Visual Arts at York University that Jia Lu was first exposed to Western psychological approaches to the human figure. She subsequently taught art at Lambton College in Sarnia, Ontario, and privately in Calgary, Alberta.
Ms. Lu now lives and works in Los Angeles. She has also worked as chief designer for the Tang Garden Museum in Tokyo, and as consulting designer for a stage production in a joint venture between Pierre Cardin and the Chinese Ministry of Textiles in Beijing. Her design work includes traditional Buddhist mural painting, stage costume and jewelry.
JIA LU has participated in 35 group exhibitions and 20 solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Japan and China.
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Happy Weekend - Three reading women in a summer landscape
Johan Krouthen (Swedish, 1858 - 1932)
Three reading women in a summer landscape 1908
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Good morning - In the Front Row at the Opera
William Holyoake (British, 1834-1894)
In the Front Row at the Opera 1880
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Good morning - French River Landscape
Carl Fredrik Hill (Swedish, 1849 - 1911)
French River Landscape, Bois- le-Roi 1877
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Good morning - Woman on the Balcony
Carl Gustav-Carus (German, 1789–1869)
Woman on the Balcony 1824
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Good morning - Zhiwei Tu painting
Zhiwei Tu painting
For seven hours straight, Tu watched the artist work, and afterwards, he bought his own paints and painted his own portrait of Mao. When he showed it to the village officials a few days later, they decided to display his piece as it was far more impressive than the commissioned piece. By 1975 he had earned a BA from the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts in Canton, and became a teacher of art at the Teaching College of Shiao Gaun, China. The Cultural Revolution in China forced the closing of all graduate programs until 1978, when the movement lost its energy. During the interruption of his studies, Tu traveled extensively throughout China studying Chinese history and culture, and producing hundreds of paintings. Later, these served as great sources of information and inspiration for much of his work.
