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Every day a new small cotillon free to download in web format (1200 px max heigth or width) Click to enlarge and download. Enjoy! 😀

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Journey into the past: images from our collections The last added first: always fresh content on top. Looking for something specific? Browse our Collections or try our search: you’ll find it very effective!

PRIMUM NON NOCERE

Yes, it’s the ancient “first do no harm”. the Hippocratic Oath It isn’t explicitly in the Hippocratic Oath that physicians use to take, but it summarizes a very important part of it: do nothing that to your knowledge might harm the patient. No sensible person would dare argue such a statement, ever. But still… Let’s […]

Ancient Greek laptop?

Found on an antique vase fragment… Take a closer look at the picture above: what is the ancient Greek boy in the middle holding on his knees? Who wouldn’t bet he’s googling for something on his laptop? Yet the notion of a laptop from 3000 years ago is somewhat puzzling: for instance where did he […]

Maps

Maps It’s a very ancient technique: most likely the first map was drawn with a stick in the dirt to show the next caveman where to find a decent shelter for himself and his family. Then in the course of time this technique evolved to true art: starting from a crude (and not necessarily accurate) […]

Italian Lexicon tables

Italian Vintage Lexicon Among the books I treasure there is an Italian Lexicon from the early ‘900’s (first edition 1881 !) I found on a bookshelf, that belonged to my granny and probably was bought fresh by her parents. Even as a child I was fascinated by the illustrations and in particular by the tables […]

Extra

Extra No matter how many pidgeonholes you provide, there’s always something that falls outside – in Latin, ‘extra’. Here we piled up all the images that despite our strenuous efforts wouldn’t fit in any of the other categories without cheating badly. Thus if you’re after something specific this is hardly the right place, whereas if […]

People

people2 by COPYRIGHT LUISA FUMI.

People History is larded with shady characters that caused unspeakable suffering and countless deaths out of sheer personal ambition and thirst for power. Having to call them Your Majesty, mein FĂźhrer, Mr President or the like didn’t ever wash the blood off their hands and never will. Fortunately though next to them are recorded also […]

Typography & Typographical elements

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Typography & Typographical elements There were books long before the art of printing came into being: sewing together a pile of scrolls is no big deal. But a book that needed years of painstaking work by a dedicated monk was a rarity, something only a fistful of major personalities could own and (maybe) read. The […]




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