Taschen love has now infected us here at Bookshelf Cinema. The bookshelf of Alan Sparks, Director of
Taschen love has now infected us here at Bookshelf Cinema. The bookshelf of Alan Sparks, Director of ISEA, has brought our attention to two extraordinary works.Hartmann Schedel’s Weltchronik, referred to as “the Nuremberg Chronicle," was an encyclopedic work published at the end of the 15th century and up until that time the most lavishly illustrated book in Europe, with over 1,800 woodcut illustrations. The version here published by Taschen as Chronicle of the World 1493 is "true to the original in every respect.”Sparks also has a copy of Taschen’s reproduction of the first six books of The Elements of Euclid as illustrated by Oliver Byrne in 1847. “Nearly a century before Mondrian made geometrical red, yellow, and blue lines famous, 19th century mathematician Oliver Byrne employed the color scheme for the figures and diagrams,” resulting in a beautiful work unlike anything before or since.From Extant, “Nightmares.” -- source link
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