Centuries ahead of its time, Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624) depicts figures made from a range of objects, mostly abstract — cubes, rings, squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, and braided hair. More here:

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Giovanni Battista Bracelli’s *Bizzarie di Varie Figure* (1624)

Giovanni Battista Bracelli's extraordinary book of prescient prints that predate the Cubist movement by a good three centuries.

Cards from Etteilla’s “Livre de Thot” Tarot, published around the time of the French Revolution. More on this beautiful and beguiling creation in our latest post:

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Etteilla’s *Livre de Thot* Tarot (ca. 1789)

French occultist Jean-Baptiste Alliette refashioned the tarot deck as a tool for spiritual and mundane divination.

Landscapes of the Western Front, 1914–1918 — A century after their strategic function has passed, these official British army intelligence photographs offer an unusual and haunting portrait of the front:

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Landscapes of the Western Front, 1914–1918

Photographs for official army panoramas that offer, a century after their strategic function has passed, an unusual and haunting portrait of WW1.

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#Onthisday in 1918, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems

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Apollinaire’s Calligrammes (1918)

A book of poetry by French writer Guillaume Apollinaire, noted for its use of "caligrams" in which typeface and arrangement of words on the page ad...

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The Cyclops, by François Desprez, 1562. ⠀⠀ Available as a print from our shop here: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/francois-desprez/