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Meret Oppenheim [Swiss, 1913 – 1985]
Schoolgirl's Notebook
1930, private collection

 

Pacino di Bonaguida [Italian, active 1302 – before 1340]
The Archangel Michael and the Dragon, from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese
c. 1340, British Library, London

   

Pacino di Bonaguida [Italian, active 1302 – before 1340]
Christ in Majesty, from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese
c. 1340, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Pacino di Bonaguida [Italian, active 1302 – before 1340]
Initial A: The Calling of Saint Andrew, from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese
c. 1340, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Workshop of Pacino di Bonaguida [Italian, active 1302 – before 1340]
Initial R: The Resurrection
c. 1330-1340, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

 

Pacino di Bonaguida [Italian, active 1302 – before 1340]
Leaf from a Laudario: The Ascension
c. 1340, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pacino di Bonaguida [Italian, active 1302 – before 1340]
Leaf from a Laudario: The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew
c. 1340, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pacino di Bonaguida [Italian, active 1302 – before 1340]
Saint Agnes Enthroned, from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese
c. 1340, British Library, London

   

Mattia Pagan [Italian, active 1543 – 1555]
L'Honesto Essempio (The Accurate Example)
1556, Art Institute of Chicago

 

Matthew Paris [English, 1200 – 1259]
Chronica Majora
c. 1240-1253, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

 

Matthew Paris [English, 1200 – 1259]
Historia Anglorum
1250-1259, British Library, London

 

Matthew Paris [English, 1200 – 1259]
Life of Saint Alban
c. 1250, Trinity College Library, Dublin

   

Cipriano Piccolpasso [Italian, 1524 – 1579]
Porcelana Pattern, from The Three Books of the Potter's Art
c. 1556-1559, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Jean Pichore [French, active c. 1501 – 1520] and Philippe Pigouchet [French, active 1488 – 1515]
Book of Hours
1508, Art Institute of Chicago

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Diverse Maniere d'Adornare I Cammini
1769, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

       

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Prima Parte di Architture e Prospective
1743, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

   

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Title Page for the First Edition of the Carceri
1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Attributed to Pisanello (Antonio Pisanello) [Italian, c. 1395 – c. 1455] and Master of the Antiphonal Q of San Giorgio Maggiore [Italian, active 1440 – 1470]
The Conversion of Saint Paul (Initial from a Gradual)
c. 1440-1450, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Follower of Jean Poyet [French, active c. 1483 – c. 1497]
Book of Hours
after 1483, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Jean Poyet [French, active c. 1483 – c. 1497] and Jean Bourdichon [French, c. 1457 – 1521]
Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne
c. 1503-1508, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

         

Victor Emile Prouvé [French, 1858 – 1943]
Cover for Salammbo
1893, Musée de l'École de Nancy

 

Pseudo-Jacquemart [French, active c. 1380 – 1410]
Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry
c. 1407-1409, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

                                                                                         

Jean Pucelle [French, active c. 1319 – 1334] and workshop
Belleville Breviary
c. 1323-1326, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

   

Jean Pucelle [French, active c. 1319 – 1334]
Book of Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux
c. 1325-1328, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

                                                   

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin [English, 1812 – 1852]
Contrasts
1836, RIBA Library, London

     

Enguerrand Quarton (Enguerrand Charonton) [French, c. 1410 – c. 1466]
Missal of Jean des Martins
1465-1466, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Attributed to Rabbula [Syrian, first active c. 586]
Rabbula Gospels
c. 586, Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence

             

Charles S. Ricketts [English, 1866 – 1931]
Cover for A House of Pomegranates
1891, University Library, Cambridge

 

Charles S. Ricketts [English, 1866 – 1931]
De Cupidinis et Psychis Amoribus
1901

 

Alexander Rodchenko [Russian, 1891 – 1956]
Cover for the Book Rechevik (Speaker) by Sergei Tret'iakov
1929, A.M. Rodchenko and V.F. Stepanova Archive, Moscow

 

John Ruskin [English, 1819 – 1900]
The Stones of Venice: The Ducal Palace
1887

 

Théo van Rysselberghe [Belgian, 1862 – 1926]
Cover for La Libre Esthétique
1895, private collection

 

Attributed to Sadiqi [Islamic, c. 1533 – 1610]
Battle between the Owls and Crows, in the Anvar-e Soheyli
1593, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Stanislas Samostrzelnik [Polish, c. 1485 – c .1541]
Grant of the Ordowąź Coat of Arms
before 1532, Biblioteka Kórnika, Kórnik

 

Sano di Pietro [Italian, 1405 – 1481]
Leaf from a Gradual: Initial E with the Adoration of the Magi
c. 1462-1463, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Second Master of San Domenico [Italian, active c. 1300 – c. 1350]
Initial D with the Calling of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew (Bifolium from an Antiphonary)
1307-1325, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Second Master of San Domenico [Italian, active c. 1300 – c. 1350]
Leaf from an Antiphonary: Initial V with Christ and the Apostles Appearing to Saint John the Evangelist and Miracle of the Manna in Saint John's Grave
1307-1324, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Gottfried Semper [German, 1803 – 1879]
Der Stil
1862

 

Silvestro dei Gherarducci [Italian, 1339 – 1399]
Breviari d'Amor
c. 1375-1400, British Library, London

 

Silvestro dei Gherarducci [Italian, 1339 – 1399]
Detached initial R with the Annunciation
c. 1375, British Library, London

 

Silvestro dei Gherarducci [Italian, 1339 – 1399]
Old Testament Picture Book
c. 1375-1400, British Library, London

 

Zanobi di Benedetto Strozzi [Italian, 1412 – 1468]
Initial Q with a Procession of Children
c. 1430-1440, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Zanobi di Benedetto Strozzi [Italian, 1412 – 1468] and Filippo di Matteo Torelli [Italian, 1409 – 1468]
Missal Leaf with Saint John Gualbert in Glory
c. 1450-1460, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

 

Louis H. Sullivan [American, 1856 – 1924]
System of Architectural Ornament
1922, Art Institute of Chicago

   

Sultan Muhammad [Islamic, active c. 1505 – 1550]
Folio from a Divan of Hafiz: Worldly and Otherworldly Drunkenness
c. 1531-1533, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Sultan Muhammad Khandan [Islamic, died c. 1550]
Verses from the Gulistan (Rose Garden) by Sad'i
1543-1544, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Bruno Taut [German, 1880 – 1938]
Plate from Alpine Architektur
1919

 

Niccolò di Ser Sozzo Tegliacci [Italian, active c. 1334, died 1363]
Assumption of the Virgin in the Caleffo Bianco
c. 1350, Archivio di Stato, Siena

 

Jan Toorop [Dutch, 1858 – 1928]
Binding for Carmen Pro Invictis (Songs for the Invincible)
1901, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Tulsi Khwurd [Islamic, active century]
Building at Agra in 1565, from an Akbarnameh
c. 1590, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Henri Van de Velde [Belgian, 1863 – 1957] and Georges Lemmen [Belgian, 1865 – 1916]
Also Sprach Zarathustra
1908, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach

 

Robert Venturi [American, born 1925]
Frontispiece of Learning from Las Vegas
1972

 

Andreas Vesalius (Andreas van Wesel) [Netherlandish, 1514 – 1564] and Jan Steven van Calcar [Netherlandish, c. 1499 – c. 1546]
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the fabric of the human body)
1543

                                       

Vigila [Spanish, active 974 – 983]
Conciliar Codex of Albelda
976, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid

 

Villard de Honnecourt [French, active c. 1220 – 1240]
Interior and Exterior Elevation of Reims Cathedral
1220-1235, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Villard de Honnecourt [French, active c. 1220 – 1240]
Sheet of Drawings with Geometric Figures and Ornaments
1220-1235, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

   

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc [French, 1814 – 1879]
Dictionnaire raisonné de l'Architecture
1858

 

Heinrich Vogeler [German, 1872 – 1942]
Frontispiece from Der Kaiser und die Hexe (The Emperor and the Witch) by Hugo von Hofmannstahl
1900, private collection

 

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey [English, 1857 – 1941]
Cover for Bound Volumes of The Studio
1893, Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart

 

Guillaume Vrelant [Netherlandish, active c. 1449, died 1481]
Book of Hours
c. 1460, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Kara Elizabeth Walker [American, born 1969]
Freedom: A Fable by Kara Elizabeth Walker- A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times with Illustrations.
1997, private collection

           

Rogier van der Weyden [Flemish, 1399 – 1464]
Chroniques de Hainaut
c.1447, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels

       

Workshop of Michael Wolgemut [German, c. 1434 – 1519]
Nuremberg Chronicle
1493

   

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