Renaissance life writing by Felix Platter, his father Thomas, and his half-brother Thomas

I almost skipped Catherine Nicholson's review of "Beloved Son Felix: Coming of Age in the Renaissance", but the picture was a painting of Felix Platter (1536-1614)—and I live 500 meters from Felix Platter-Spital. The reviewed book is a translation of part of a memoir the influential pathologist and ophthalmologist

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La talentueuse @punkjackdow vient d'imprimer sa dernière gravure "La Venus à la Fourrure", inspirée du roman du même nom par Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, mais aussi de la chanson de Velvet Underground.

Je ne suis pas objectif, et j'aime beaucoup !

#Woodcut #printing #printmaker #engraving #estampe #gravure #mastoart

@catsalad

We are the #printer. Submission of this print job was futile. You will assist us in assimilating additional quantities of pigment 9078. You must comply.

#printing #shitpost

"This past week, I was fortunate to acquire a particularly handsome example of a work that, while not always widely appreciated outside #bibliophilic circles, deserves to be counted among the most ambitious productions of #nineteenthcentury #Hebrew #printing – the #Trieste #Haggadah of 1863.

Students of #Jewish #art will recognize immediately the significance of this edition. Indeed, the noted art #historian #BezalelRoth went so far as to assert that only one nineteenth-century Haggadah could truly be called groundbreaking in both conception and execution: the #TriesteHaggadah.

Issued under the title #LHaggadaillustrata, the volume presents the Hebrew text alongside a refined #Italian #translation by #Rabbi #AvrahamChaiMorpurgo. The translation is not merely serviceable; it reflects a careful engagement with earlier #machzorim and #Haggadot across several #European traditions, resulting in a text that is both accurate and stylistically polished."

https://jewishpress.com/the-trieste-haggadah-of-1863/

The Trieste Haggadah of 1863

Even the title page announces that this is no ordinary production. Figures such as Moses, Aaron, David, and Solomon are framed within an ornate Gothic design – a bold stylistic departure that signal

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How do you print a capital E? Do you for am L and then the top two cross-bars, or sweep up to form a Gamma and do the lowers? Or do you draw a vertical followed by 3 bars? Or do you just run everything into a single stroke?

#handwriting #printing

How do you print a capital E? Do you for am L and then the top two cross-bars, or sweep up to form a Gamma and do the lowers? Or do you draw a vertical followed by 3 bars? Or do you just run everything into a single stroke?

#handwriting #printing

New stamp!

#linocut
#printing
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