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Alexander Rodchenko, Stars, 1938
Félix Vallotton, Fireworks, Woodcut, 1901
Pushkin sketched out characters in rough drafts, alongside their descriptions
Page from draft for the second canto of Eugene Onegin, 1825-32
Page from draft for the second canto of Eugene Onegin, 1825-32
José de Ribera, Visión de Baltasar/ The Vision of Belshazzar, 1635
Michelangelo’s Handwritten Grocery List
(the servant he sent to market was illiterate)
(the servant he sent to market was illiterate)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley & #39;s annotated copy of the first edition of & #39;Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus& #39;, London, 1818
J. S. Bach- Original Score for & #39;Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich& #39;, in the composer& #39;s hand
Erik Satie - Hotel de la Suzonnières, c. 1893
Olga Rozanova, Suprematist pattern design, ca.1917-18, Moscow
Liubov Popova, textile design, Russia, 1920s
Black with gold waves pattern Chiyogami, Japanese hand screen printed paper
Sonia Delaunay, Electric Prisms, 1914
Paul Klee. In the Current Six Thresholds. 1929
Detail of a hand embroidered wool quilt with circles, unknown artist, American, 1897
Jain manuscript, Aḍhāī-dvīpa, ‘Two and a half continents’. Painting on cloth, 18th century
Section of the Dunhuang star chart (showing a polar projection (North circumpolar region))
Original was made circa 649-684 CE by Li Chunfeng
Original was made circa 649-684 CE by Li Chunfeng
John Auldjo, Vesuvius Lava map, 1832
‘The Four Great Islands’, from a Burmese Buddhist cosmology manuscript.
Map of Osaka by Kono Dosei, 1651
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1961, Pen and ink on paper
Ceiling of the Mosque of Sheikh Lotfollah, Isfahan, Iran
A Thangka Record of the Miracles at Gendüngang Monastery (13th Century?)
Map of the Moon, From an 18th century German children’s encyclopaedia, & #39;Bertuch’s Bilderbuch für Kinder& #39;
16th century copy of an ancient Persian cosmological map
Arabic Map of the Earth, date unknown
Fra Angelico, The Vision of Ezekiel, c. 1451-1452
“The Man of Commerce” is a detailed map that conflates human anatomy with the American transportation system. Published in 1889
‘Skidi ‘, Pawnee Star Map Great Plains, Kansas
Hildegard of Bingen’s illumination for “God, Cosmos, and Humanity” in Scivias, her book of religious visions, ca. 1151
Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072
Manuscript, The Shahnama of Firdawsi, Iran Shiraz, 1539 CE. Work on paper 15.2 x 10 inches
Prisse d& #39;Avens, Islamic Art from the monuments of Cairo since the 7th to the late 18th century, 1877.
Prisse d& #39;Avens, Islamic Art from the monuments of Cairo since the 7th to the late 18th century, 1877.
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Elephant Mask. Cameroon. 19th century
Tiles from Abakh Hoja Tomb, Burial Place Of Muhatum Ajam, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
Wassily Kandinsky, Blue (Blau). 1927
Ludwig Becker, Watercolor Of A Meteor, 1860
Aztec Calendar Stone, Francisco de Agüera, 1792. Engraving in Antonio de León y Gama, Descripción histórica y cronológica . . . Mexico, 1832
