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11 Jan 2018, 7:29 am
This Essay examines Florentine painter and engraver Antonio Tempesta’s 1593 petition for a Papal printing privilege on his great bird’s-eye view Map of Rome. [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 7:29 am
This Essay examines Florentine painter and engraver Antonio Tempesta’s 1593 petition for a Papal printing privilege on his great bird’s-eye view Map of Rome. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 8:30 am
There was no engraving on the foundation of his monument saying “he was a white supremacist who changed his views and tried to do penance for his sins against humanity. [read post]
20 Nov 2017, 6:02 am
Johann Buno, Memoriale Codicis Justinianei (1674), Engraving for Book 9, after p. 36. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 8:11 am
ADDED: This story made me think about "The Velvet Underground — Live at Max's Kansas City," a record I've listened to enough to have engraved on my brain the reaction to the crowd's clamoring to hear a particular song that the singer rejected as encouraging a bad health problem. [read post]
14 Nov 2017, 2:52 pm
Or of the guy who was so fashion-minded he permanently engraved a Louis Vuitton logo on his head? [read post]
29 Oct 2017, 6:12 pm
Every detail of the ring was meticulously thought out, from the door on the front that would be engraved with the term “exoneree” or “death row exoneree” depending on the sentence, to the teardrop on the side representing the wrongful conviction and the three drops of blood, signifying each exoneree’s past, present and future. [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 11:12 am
Viewed in full sunlight, its tawdriness is unspeakable; in the torrential downpour of the rainy season, as we first saw it, it inspired an anguish similar to that produced by the engravings of Piranesi. [read post]
9 Oct 2017, 8:37 am
The state later dedicated a memorial to Justice Marshall, engraved with the words “Equal Justice Under Law” on the Lawyer’s Mall in front of the Maryland State House in Annapolis. from the In Custodia Legis blog of the Librarians of Congress [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 6:04 am
The statue of Marshall is surrounded by an archway that is engraved with the words, “Equal Justice Under Law”, and facing his statue across a brief courtyard are two benches. [read post]
18 Sep 2017, 2:55 am
According to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing: “A special committee … determined that portraits of Presidents of the United States have a more permanent familiarity in the minds of the public than any others. [read post]
18 Sep 2017, 2:42 am
The question is not whether simple concepts such as rock carvings, engraved signage, or Prussian Blue dye are within the knowledge of lay people or even within the knowledge of a person of ordinary skill in the art. [read post]
17 Sep 2017, 3:48 pm
The right to loan articles is “deeply engraved” into German law, he explained, and publishers have to allow it unless libraries can pay per article at a reasonable price…” [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 4:00 pm
A few pieces of Gone With the Wind star Vivien Leigh’s jewelry will be auctioned at Sotheby’s on September 26. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 1:14 pm
... have a taste of conversation.The engraving is from the 1870s, by Gustave Doré, illustrating "Gargantua and Pantagruel" — written in the mid-1500s by Rabelais, who is under discussion in this earlier post today. [read post]
14 Aug 2017, 6:06 am
This is a guest post by Rebecca Boggs Roberts. [read post]
21 Jul 2017, 12:32 pm
The gold-plated pens the president uses to sign laws are assembled in Rhode Island but lacquered and engraved in China. [read post]
19 Jul 2017, 4:00 am
Although making the engraving was as laborious as drawing, Dürer and his assistant could crank out hundreds of copies without being in thrall to a publisher, because he owned his own printing press. [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 12:50 pm
Derby ; engraved (with permission) by T.A. [read post]
5 Jul 2017, 6:00 pm
The landscape is markedly absent engraved marble headstones and bright bouquets of flowers decorating gravesites. [read post]
