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Buxton Wood · Book designer retweeted
“Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.”
- Roger Scruton
ALT Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Rome, Lazio, Italy. The three frescoes around the high altar are the 17th Century works of the Jesuit Andrea Pozzo. They show Saint Ignatius Loyola during his vision at La Storta, sending Saint Francis Xavier to the Indies, and greeting Saint Francesco Borgia. CC BY-SA 4.0
ALT Fresco on ceiling of the grand salon of Barberini Palace in Rome, by Pietro da Cortona (1633–1639) CC BY-SA 4.0
Buxton Wood · Book designer retweeted
I watched Terrence Malick's filmography, wanting to understand how he made locations feel real and tangible. The answer was pretty straightforward: devote precious space and time to showing the details of the world, and they'll feel it.
So I'm going to do that.
Buxton Wood · Book designer retweeted
For the publication order purists, I fixed them! I had to buy them first and wait for delivery, but I did it, just for you. Accomplished today. You are welcome.
Buxton Wood · Book designer retweeted
Our books are filled with artworks by brilliant new artists - we’re reimagining the classics for future generations.
We commission artworks that would have been hung in galleries in a different era.
Like these beautiful oil illustrations in our edition of Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece, Crime & Punishment, from @j_elliot_art .
Notice the clear inspiration from the likes of Hopper, Modigliani and John Singer Sargent, working within the great tradition of the fine arts.
Support us in giving commissions and work to the best young artists working today. Together we can make the world a more beautiful place.
You can get Crime & Punishment here: oldsovereignpublishing.com/c…
Along with a number of other incredible classics.
Buxton Wood · Book designer retweeted
🖼️16th C. Painting of Michael the Archangel by an unknown Dutch artist
Buxton Wood · Book designer retweeted
I started these Shadow of the Colossus paintings in acrylic. When they are dry a glaze and vellatura layer woll be applied to deepen the shadows and create atmospheric effects.
Buxton Wood · Book designer retweeted
In his painting 'A Walk at Dusk', (ca. 1835) Caspar D. Friedrich depicts a solitary figure with bowed head as he walks by a moonlit dolmen (ancient megalithic tomb). A visual meditation on time & mortality along the christian promise of rebirth as symbolized by the waxing moon.
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👑Bronze Bust of Emperor Charles V by Leone Leoni ca. 1555
Here Leoni portrayed Charles V in the armour that he had worn at the victorious Battle of Mühlberg in 1547. Therefore, he created a bust that shows the entire upper body of the emperor.
The figures on the plinth have reference to the wise and victorious Imperator (eagle, Mars, Minerva). Rudolf II acquired the bust for his Kunstkammer and chose it as the model for his own portrait.
