This New Year’s gift of music by Holborne, Kapsberger, and Loesser is accompanied by two seasonal tapestries designed by the Master of the Months of Lucas around 1535. Winter (from the “Seasons of Lucas” Series) is crowded with all manner of people enjoying winter pastimes or doing winter work. Images of children playing and just…
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It’s the organological details on the cats-n-dogs-ichord that get me: paws coming out the front, helper grabbing tails at the back. Does the player touch the paws or the keys? Is the tail-grabber like the guy who works the pumps on an organ? See the whole thing at the Rijksmuseum here.
Everything about this print is marvelous. The dreamy night god. The deep dark of the town. The scattered lights from torches and doors and windows. The print is held at the Rijksmuseum. Check it out here.
Somewhere (Word doc? Evernote?) I have a running list of libraries and museums with publicly available digital asset, each entry annotated with info on their usage policy. Periodically I’ll google “open access art,” or some such, just to see if anything new has cropped up. A sea change is in full swing, with institutions increasingly…
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