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Rare first millennium Bible comes to New York


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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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.





As impressive as this is, we can't imagine why someone would commit countless hours to making these hidden images.



Although, in the 1800s, the ladies would have been mighty impressed.



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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Broken Mirrors - by Andreas Heumann (1946), German



Andreas Heumann, born in Munich, was brought up in Switzerland. On leaving school he began an apprenticeship in Bern to study block-making and printing.

He stayed there for four years which gave him the wide knowledge of colour which was invaluable in his later work and of course in his painting. Although he had always wanted to paint and
had had ambition to go to Florence to study it was photography that initially captured his imagination and led him to London via short stints in Paris and New York.



Photographers like Stieglitz, Avedon, Kertesz, Weston, Steichen and Cartier Bresson influenced his early work. Once in London, he started to do Reportage and Fashion photography working on assignments for magazines such as Stern, Vogue, Twen, Harpers and many others.
It was then that he was spotted by the advertising industry and since then he has worked on over twelve hundred advertising campaigns, both national and international. Advertising discovered the potential of his images and this helped to make his name into one of the most prolific and successful in the industry - his artistic style has won him over a hundred awards.

Despite his busy schedule, Andreas Heumann has continued to produce a prodigious amount of personal work. His prints are in the collections of The Victoria & Albert Museum, Kodak's Museum of Photography in Rochester USA, as well as numerous Private Collections. His Campaign for the Tate Gallery won him numerous Awards.

Each print is a unique work, emphasizing Heumann's absorption with the artistic side of photography. The final results have been fastidiously worked on, revealing a sensitive feel for the medium. But, as Heumann said during an interview in "Techniques of Masters" (worldwide satellite TV series, sponsored by Kodak): "A bad picture will always be a bad picture, no technique will save or improve it. It is not style or technique that makes the image. It is the thought and the interpretation of an experience in life, our seven senses, which have to be translated into a picture. The technique is only a tool for enhancement of a thought".

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The absence of expectations results in the reduction of disappointments.

Max Uth (1863-1914)
The beer garden

The German painter Max Uth was born 1863 in Berlin and studied at the arts academy under Eugen Bracht. He continued his studies during journeys to Belgium, Dalmatia, Italy and Tyrol. In 1897 he opened a studio for female students, which was visited by Gertrud Berger (1870-1949), Laura Schaberg (ca. 1860-1935) and Sophie Wencke-Meinken (1874-1963). He was an art professor and director of the Berlin Malschule.

Bev Jozwiak art

Ernest Lawson (American, 1873 - 1939)
Spring Morning 1913

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.

George Clausen (1852 – 1944)
Spring Morning, Haverstock Hill 1881

Yuri Klapouh painting

Jeff Rowland art.