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Bernardino Orsetti, former owner. Inventario Generale.
Inula helenium, or Fleabane (Elenium), original woodblock designed and cut by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck for the 1562 and 1565 editions of Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de materia medica.
This block is from the only surviving series of original blocks representing the great folio woodcut-illustrated scientific books of the mid-sixteenth century. Shown with the block is its image as printed in T.J. Fitzpatrick's copy (exhibit 8) of the…
Into the Sunset
I created this piece originally as a background for an animation. I wanted to push and simplify the colors of a sunset as well as work in bringing depth and subtle textures to the piece.