EditorialMirror of fire Specvlvm Vrens (title on object) Twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God (series title) Duodecim Specula Deum (series title), In the foreground a fire is lit by the focal point of a mirror. In the background, examples of the use o...
EditorialThe stinging nettle 3. whether it be small, even the Galiopsis, or stinging nettle is dead, Heytternesseln and deaf or dead nettles, Fol. 396r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D....
EditorialUrtica Roman and Urtica II. sive older, Welsch nettles and common burning nettles, Fol. 395v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Fey...
EditorialDeath Took Him as he Rose from his Bed of Nettles, plate 45 from Miserere. Georges Rouault; French, 1871-1958. Date: 1922. Dimensions: 573 ? 332 mm (plate); 655 ? 505 mm (sheet). Heliogravure, with sugar-lift, burnishing, and drypoint on paper. Origin:...
EditorialDeath Took Him as he Rose from his Bed of Nettles, plate 45 from Miserere. Georges Rouault; French, 1871-1958. Date: 1922. Dimensions: 573 ? 332 mm (plate); 655 ? 505 mm (sheet). Heliogravure, with sugar-lift, burnishing, and drypoint on paper. Origin:...