There’s no objective way to define a devious word like “art”: nowadays you may see sold as art just anything, and woe betide if you dare snigger 🙂 . However in the old days when printing books took plenty of toil, time and money the concept of art was somewhat sharper: is it beautiful, of no practical use and worth publishing? Then it’s art and you’ll find it here.
Collage of motives decorating ancient Greek pottery, wild…
Vintage engraving representing the destruction of a German…
Cathedral of Magdeburg, Germany: wooden statue of saint…
Silver shrine bas-relief with Charlemagne or Charles the…
Vintage engraving representing German warriors fighting with arches,…
Stair to heaven miniature from Hortus deliciarum. Hortus…
Capital D decorated letter miniature of a medieval…
Vintage engraving representing German warriors going to fight…