Digital Collections: Early Modern Period
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Emblem Books
More than 400 illustrated books featuring symbolic pictures and explanatory texts.
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Festival Books
Over 350 illustrated books and descriptive texts that describe court entertainments, civic events, historic occasions, and popular holidays.
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Maps of Rome, 1550–1883
Over 40 printed maps of the city of Rome depicting the ancient, medieval, and modern city by graphic artists such as Etienne Du Pérac, Giuseppe Vasi, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
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Photographs of Tapestries
A comprehensive visual resource for the study of tapestry. Over 5,000 study photographs reproduce examples from the late 15th to the late 18th century, including works from the southern Netherlands, Flanders, Holland, and France.
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Reproductive Prints after Paintings by Nicolas Poussin
Thirty-five prints that disseminated Poussin's paintings, including biblical scenes from Exodus and Genesis, religious images of the Holy Family and the life of Christ, and Poussin's heroic landscapes.
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Schembard Büch, 16th c.
A hand-colored manuscript depicts Nuremberg carnival processions from 1449–1539 with vignettes of costumed participants and decorated floats.
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