Selected Graphics: Decaying Daguerreotypes by Mathew Brady, Circa 1850
Images of decaying daguerreotypes from Mathew Brady’s NYC Studio, circa 1850.
Category: Images
Selected Graphics: Dante’s Divine Comedy
These illustrations from a 15th-century book show various areas of hell, purgatory, and heaven, based on Dante’s musings in The Divine Comedy. Hell and purgatory were painted by Priamo della Quercia, and Giovanni di Paoli di Grazia did heaven.
Selected Graphics: Grunty Animals from The Flower of Nature, Circa 1350
If you need, or just want, 14th-century images of grunty or otherwise irritated creatures, you’ve come to the right place.