Hi, all. I just found a great site for booklovers. It has page after page of bookshelves. Neat bookshelves. Chaotic bookshelves. Famous bookshelves (see image of Shakespear and Company bookstore). Libraries. Art installations and much more. All can be found at
Complimentary passes are available to the four day art fair, including the Thursday night preview, beginning at 7 p.m. and the daily fair running noon to 8 p.m. Friday and 11 to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Contact us to reserve a pass that will be left for you at the ticket window. Stop in at the Fair to see Arion books, prints, and photographs with artists including Laurie Simmons, Stephen Shore, Frank Lobdell, Alex Katz, Jim Dine, R. B, Kitaj, Diana Michener, William T. Wiley and others.
In the strictest definition of illuminated manuscript, only manuscripts with gold or silver would be considered illuminated.
Illuminated Manuscripts
"In the Grilandus Inventum, a beautifully-preserved handwritten Italian book from 1506-07 currently on display at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, there is a figure of a man surrounded by zodiacal signs. In his left hand, he holds an armillary sphere, a celestial sphere with the Earth at the center of the universe, in accord with pre-Copernican astronomy. Lines from the zodiacal signs connect to Zodiac Man's body parts.
In the 19th century—with the work of Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, and others—children’s fairy tales and nursery rhymes began to be widely published, documenting what was originally a rich oral tradition across western cultures.
I found this work of ceramic art by artist Richard Shaw to be quite interesting. It has a book theme and it shows the cavelear way that many folks treat books. It is just the thing for a book collector's home. Don't you think?
