I found a really neat website that finds and sells facsimiles of old books, rolls, documents, etc. facsimilefinder.com. While the price tags are way over my head, they have some great photos and visuals. It is a lot of fun to look at the artwork and design in these relics. I’ll highlight a few I was impressed by. Keep in mind that these are replicas that you could actually buy if you had a few gold coins to spare. The artwork is just incredible . . . truly a window into the past. The following headers/titles link to the corresponding web pages.

Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Notebooks leonardo vinci institut france

Song Book of Joanna the Mad

Codex Rotundus

Codex Tulane

Dante’s Divine Comedy

Book of Kells

Harmonia Macrocosmica

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The Astounding Work of Nicholas Rougeux: Data Artist

05/04/2024 • Art, Other Creators

Artists, scholars, naturalists . . . prepare to drool. Nicholas Rougeux – expert data visualizer – has taken the incredible works of historical artists and made them effortlessly accessible in an online format. Below I have highlighted his projects that have most captured my fascination.

ICONOGRAPHIC ENCYCLOPÆDIA of SCIENCE, LITERATURE, and ART

Discover a vast array of knowledge from 1851 spanning Zoology, Military Sciences, Architecture, Mathematics, and so much more, beautifully depicted by over 13,000 illustrations. The image quality is exquisite and the web-friendly formatting has interwoven the text with the pictures for seamless referencing.

British & Exotic Mineralogy

You’ve probably never experienced rocks in this way before. Artistically arranged by colour this collection of high-resolution illustrations makes my mouth water: highly educational and inspirational.

ILLUSTRATIONS of the NATURAL ORDERS of PLANTS

Soak in 160 beautiful illustrations of a wide variety of plants, ordered and interconnected in a gorgeous collection.

Humming-Birds

Nicholas presents John Gould’s 537 species of humming-bird illustrations in mesmerising swarms of lively colour. Prepare to get lost in the intricate details of these delicate beauties.

Mathematical Instruments

This is a smaller project, but still beautiful and stimulating, especially the posters. I love looking at each of the instruments in their groups. I’m a sucker for gadgets of antiquity.

Please also visit Nicholas’s main website to see more of his mastery: https://www.c82.net/. Each project has comprehensive posters that make great wall art.