“For I dare not take it upon me to speak with my blabbering, fleshly tongue of the work that belongs to God alone; and, to put it briefly, even though I dared so to speak I would not wish to.”
- Chapter XXVI of The Cloud of Unknowing (14th century)
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Thursday, August 13, 2015
A lady and gentleman of Goa, from ‘La galerie agreable du...
A lady and gentleman of Goa, from ‘La galerie agreable du monde… Tome premier des Indes Orientales.’, published by Pieter van der Aa, Leyden, c. 1725
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Tupinamba Indians Dancing, by John White (1540-1593)
Tupinamba Indians Dancing, by John White (1540-1593)
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Like the giant gold-digging ants Herodotus described in the...
Like the giant gold-digging ants Herodotus described in the fifth century BC or this 16th-century depiction of shipwrecked Portuguese sailors battling giant crabs in the Indian Ocean, the fantastic, the strange and the astonishing have always been ascribed to whatever lands were little-known and distant. For Europeans, this was the East.
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Departure from Lisbon for Brazil, the East Indies and America,...
Departure from Lisbon for Brazil, the East Indies and America, engraving from c.1592 by Theodor de Bry (Flemish, 1528-1598), illustration in America Tertia Pars.
Location: Service Historique de la Marine, Vincennes.
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This detail of Macau in the late 1500s by Theodore de...
This detail of Macau in the late 1500s by Theodore de Bry reveals Westerners being carried in palanquins or walking through town accompanied by servants with umbrellas. The inner harbor is busy with Western ships.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Engraving by Theodore de Bry after John White’s...
Engraving by Theodore de Bry after John White’s watercolour, from Thomas Hariot’s
A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590)
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