#and depicts more ancient illustrations... hmmm...

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On the "Herbarius" and "Hortus Sanitatis" (1901) Joseph Frank Payne

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hmmm top 5 historical art movements you wish more people knew about?

Soviet Constructivism. an abstract, industrial soviet art and design movement. I think it is less well-known than socialist realism, but you get a clearer picture of the soviet art world if you know about both.

Egyptian Surrealism. My favorite art history professor covered the Egyptian surrealist movement in one of her classes. Look at this manifesto.

Old Kingdom portrait sculpture. The popular idea about ancient egyptian art is that depictions of the human figure were always simple, stylized, and highly idealized. In fact, there were artistic movements, and there were changes in how the figure was depicted over time. The Boston MFA has a collection of portrait busts from the old kingdom, from a moment when realism was in fashion; likenesses of people who lived 4000 years ago, their faces so lifelike that they almost seem to breathe.

Computer art. A decades-old field full of rich and varied works. Long before the AI marketing boom there was a history of weird and wonderful things being made by the small crowd of people who are interested in both postmodern art and graduate-level mathematics.

20th century sci-fi and fantasy Illustration. Somebody needs to do a serious art-historical examination of this. It might have to be me.