#engravings
Hans Vredeman de Vries (Dutch, 1527-1606)
from The Book of Perspective, published 1604-1605:
Imaginary spaces with foreshortening of figures, and perspective renderings of courtyards, staircases, arches, and colonnades.
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On this day, 104 years ago, the last passenger pigeon on earth died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Her name was Martha and she was almost 30 years old. John James Audubon, who depicted these beauties (one of 435 hand-colored copper engravings in our double-elephant folio Birds of America), could never have conceived they would be extinct a century later…
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“The Happy Reunion: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette welcome the Dauphin of France to Paradise.”
An engraving by Luigi Schiavonetti after a painting by Domenico Pellegrini. Printed in 1800. [source: Bertolami Fine Arts auctions, 18 May 2022.]
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