#Valentin Denis

[uwmspeccoll]

The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb

It has been called the first masterpiece of the Renaissance, the forefather of artistic realism, and the first major oil painting (though that last claim is dubious, since oil paints were in use in Asia as early as the 7th century). In the last five centuries, it has been involved in seven separate thefts and is possibly the most stolen work in art history (the bottom left panel has never been recovered, a reproduction now stands in its place). It’s Jan van Eyck’s Adoration of the Mystic Lamb A.K.A. The Ghent Altarpiece. Rather, it’s the comprehensive treatment of The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb printed and published in 1964 by Arti Grafiche Ricordi of Milan, under the auspices of the Belgian National Commission for UNESCO.

The text is by Valentin Denis, a Belgian professor of Archeology and Art History, and translated into English from the French by Michael Langley. Arti Grafiche Ricordi had also published the original French edition in 1963, as well as an Italian translation the same year. A Dutch-language edition was published in 1964 in Amsterdam by Bonaventura, an imprint of Elsevier (both names an homage to the lauded Dutch House of Elzevir). Despite the change in publisher, the Dutch edition maintains the same design that is consistent across all three of the Ricordi editions. The plates are printed in full-color letterpress halftone on wood veneer laminated to carboard. The first plate is a fold-out triptych, allowing readers to view the entire altarpiece, both open and closed. The following 24 plates focus on the panels, showing individual panels in their entirely and also honing in on details, such as the extreme close up of the background flora and architecture on the upper left corner of the central panel (eighth image above). 

Arti Grafiche Ricordi was the graphic design arm of Casa Ricordi, founded in 1808 by the violinist Giovanni Ricordi and predominantly known as a publisher of classical music and opera. The publishing house came to prominence by developing privileged relationships with major 19th-century Italian composers like Rossini, Verdi, and later, Puccini. The firm maintained full family control, with four generations of Ricordi’s at the helm, for over a century, and remains a major name in classical music publishing (now as a subsidiary of Universal Music Group). But Arti Grafiche Ricordi has its own influential past in Italian graphic design. Giulio, the third Ricordi to lead the firm, first bolstered the Officine Grafiche, hiring as the creative director the German Adolfo Hohenstein in 1888. Hohenstein and Officine Grafiche would go on to train the bulk of the first generation of great Italian poster designers. 

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-Olivia Hickner, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Decorative Sunday #Decorative Plates #decorative arts #The Ghent Altarpiece #The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb #Jan van Eyck #Valentin Denis #Arti Grafiche Ricordi #Casa Ricordi #Giovanni Ricordi #Giulio Ricordi #micheal langley #letterpress halftone #Adolfo Hohenstein #oil painting #renaissance art #olivia

[chalamet-chalamet]

Dune: Part Two press conference in London today ✨

IG credit to zendayacollective

#timothee chalamet #timothée chalamet #josh brolin #denis villeneuve #austin butler #florence pugh #lea seydoux #rebecca ferguson #zendaya #dune #valentines #valentines day #February 14 #london #dune part 2 #dune part two

[meowdious]

dutch's favorite fruit 😆

#rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #dutch van der linde #hosea matthews #vandermatthews #my art #let's go tahiti instead of saint denis please please #silly valentine prompt

[theloveinc]

bakugo + february

(warning: gn i think? kinda shitty world building😖, a lil angst, happy valentine’s day!!!!!)

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“This is the third box of chocolates in this bin alone.”

You throw the frilly, silver package onto a large pile of red cardboard and ribbon, on top of another box of neatly wrapped sweets. Some of the gifts with sappy, little valentines written on top, others with pink and white sticky notes.

Bakugo huffs with a pout and an eye roll, in his own hands a stack of rainbow cards he flips through quickly.

“That’s funny.”

You don’t look at him, just continue to paw around in the bin in front of you. You pull out a dark brown teddy bear, it’s fur soft in your hands, and turn to plop it in the pile of things he said that you could keep: stickers, fake flowers, toys.

“Why?”

You don’t even glance at him as you say it, like it doesn’t matter, and he picks at a bit of lace falling off of a large greeting card and snorts.

“Not like I ever got any of this kinda crap in high school.”

You stop your rifling to stare at him, your expression so different than from moments before. “You didn’t get any fan mail in high school?”

You assume he did, at least: he was just as cute back then as he is now… you’ve seen the pictures of that blonde boy, smaller, still scowling, but still any teenager’s dream. He was working as a hero by then, surely he had some sort of fan club.

(You would’ve been amongst them if you had known. Now he’s professional, though, and you only met him through Jirou when you transferred from her team to his.)

“I didn’t get any…” he pauses, his face twisting in a frown, his cheeks going the slightest bit ruddy. “Chocolates and shit. Letters.”

“Katsuki…” he grunts but doesn’t look, your tone incredulous in a way he doesn’t want to address. “You were never confessed to?”

He blows out an angry raspberry, picking up and throwing a bottle of nicely-labeled hot sauce into his own keep pile. It clinks with the rest.

“Don’t fucking rub it in.”

“I’m not!” you try to assure, reaching out for him. “I’m just… a little surprised, is all.”

He glares, wordless and accusatorially, like your giggles are threatening and the vacuum sealed pair of panties you teasingly wave in the air (and he snatches, immediately trashing) are nuclear.

“…’cuz I would’ve thought you got tons. Like now, big boy.”

He turns even more pink. As pink as half the mail room has become with all the love notes sent in for February.

“Yeah, well,” Bakugo tries to move on, grimacing as he picks up a plain envelope that he initially had high hopes for and unfolds it into a long, love poem. “Can’t win ‘em all, I learned.”

And as you throw another box of store-bought chocolates onto the stack, you think you know what you want to get him for Valentine’s Day.

#bakugo #bakugou x reader #yes I wrote this on Christmas LMFAO #or most of it #inspired by these horrible handmade chocolates I made #that were so freaking ugly #someone told me they were good tho #anyway pardon me I’m still in bed #I’ll give better Valentine’s Day wishes after class maybe #also uhhhhhhhhh #u know what this made me think of ? #that trend that’s like ‘would we have dated in high school?’ #I just imagine Bakugo getting all blushy and saying yes #and ur like ‘u freaking liar u were so wrapped up back then’ #and he’s all mad at u for denying it #lmfaoooo me at. my high school having a super bad time #ANYWAY I just think like #who the h*ll woulda confessed to Bakugo ever in his younger years? #surely it’s a soft spot #ANYWAY #HAPPY VALENTINES DAY MY BABIWA #BABIES***** #bye. #ps… #I forget what and which white day is #caitie post #gen

[roamingtigress]

Outtakes! You think these cowboys are cooperative for me for my photoshoots? Guess again! Taken from the photoshoots: I'm looking at you, you're looking at me, ah no I'm not

"What, you've never seen a cowboy out and about with his 'bounty' before?" Epilogue Dutch rolling around in the daisies Epilogue Dutch + Chapter 2 Dutch in Portrait The Guarma Cowboy

#rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #vandermatthews #hosea matthews #dutch van der linde #van der linde gang #rdr2 dutch #dutch x hosea #hosea x dutch #Valentine #St Denis #Saint Denis #New Hanover #Lemoyne #Bayou Nwa #Heartlands #rdr2 photography #red dead redemption 2 photography #red dead #red dead redemption two #rdr2 community #red dead redemption 2 community

[youngneil]

LMAOOOO???????? whaat was he cooking

#library of ruina #my art #liwei #lowell #denis #stephan #chun #valentin #dong hwan

[i-keepmyideals]

THEY FINALLY CONFIRMED IT

MY MAN IS WINNING THIS YEAR

#THIS IS THE ONE THING I DESPERATELY NEEDED FOR THIS SERIES #IF NOT STEVE BLUM IT HAD TO BE MATT MERCER #and like.....there really was no denying it when the trailer dropped. that was straight up just matt #matthew mercer is a god #matt mercer #vincent valentine #final fantasy 7 rebirth #final fantasy vii #ffvii rebirth #ffviir

[walnutcookie]

happy pride month if you didnt know cotton candy is canonically sapphic

#sorry i dont have her relationship chart in my game #if these are incorrect plea let me know ill delete this LMA #SHE SAYS RIGHT THERE THAT SHES FALLING FOR CHERRY BALL #There is no way to deny it that is a girlkisser #cotton candy cookie #cookie run #<- maintagging cause literally . i dont see anyone talking abt this #people freaked out abt the mad/espres valentines post when theres been a sapphic character here all along

[chalamet-chalamet]

Timothée Chalamet and the cast of ‘Dune: Part Two’ at the London photocall on February 14, 2024. ✨

#timothee chalamet #timothée chalamet #dune #dune part two #dune part 2 #london #lea seydoux #florence pugh #zendaya #february 14 #valentines day #denis villeneuve #austin butler #josh brolin

[kiwiplaetzchen]

Happy Valentine’s Day!! 🥰

Still a work in progress but I finally have an app that works on my phone! Now to figure out how to use it lol so a little valentines Nosy for you! 🥰

Evaaaaa!! 🥹💚💕

Happy Valentines Day right back at you!! 💕💚 Thank you so much for sharing this!!! 💚🫂

#Eva #Nosy #Nosy fanart #Hogwarts Legacy #Valentine’s Day #FLUFFY NOSY #FLUFFY BUM #💚😆💚 #Nosy was never fluffier #how can you say 'no' to that face? #how could anyone deny him anything?! #how?! #I'M LOOKING AT YOU #PREFECT BOYYYY #stop resisting Nosy's charm #I mean #just look!! #he looks so cute!! #my heart!! #💚💚💚 #my tine stone cold Niffler heart is about to burst #Bobby likes to make other parts burst #but that is not the point here #Bobby would find all your sweet spots tho... #NO #STAHP #I would ask one of you to slap Bobby with a newspaper #but Bobby is also into that #so #yeah

[brainrotdotorg]

godspeed i hope its actually breast milk o7

it was not breast milk it was a publicity stunt unfortch. a buddy of mine showed up to try some with me and we were waiting for the dude at thetable to finish his spiel bc these two girls were in line before me and the guy was showing them these videos of cows getting slaughtered and talking about how fucked up it was and how we should be drinking plant-based milks instead which like. yeah its bad for the environment we should find better alternatives to meat. dont show students a snuff film before telling them that youre actually selling them OAT MILK!!!!!!

i got up to the table and said "be honest with me. is this human breast milk" and he said "no its oat milk" so i said "okay you have a good one" and he started yelling after me like "youre contributing to animal abuse!!" and i just said back "then let me drink breast milk" n then he kept yelling at me for awhile so. womp womp

#kicks rocks and stones #looks like ill have to find breast milk another way........ #how could you deny a ladyboy some breast milk on valentines day of all days? whimper

[boyharsher]

Latin America November 2023 • tickets at www.nudeclub.org

flyer by Denis Makhlin / Photo by Riley Valentine

#boy harsher #denis makhiln #riley valentine #gigz

[weirdlookindog]

The Ghost of Rashmon Hall (Night Comes Too Soon, 1948)

#night comes soon #the ghost of rashmon hall #valentine dyall #anne howard #alec faversham #1948 #1940s movies #denis kavanagh #horror #pressbook

[bladerunnerfanatic]

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

#blade runner #blade runner 2049 #harrison ford #ridley scott #ryan gosling #ana de armas #denis villeneuve #postcard #holiday #happy valentine's day #science fiction #sci fi

[mummyworldsworld]

Happy love day to everyone

To everyone who is away from their loved ones, to those who are not with anyone:

I'm thinking of you and love you ❤️

Anyways send gifts 🎁 🤭

#bd/sm blog #bd/sm kink #valentines day #happy valentine's day #submisive sissy #hypnosub #sissy caged #18+ only #beta sub #humiliation kink #submisive faggot #locked and denied #caged chastity #feminine sissy #sissy tasks #beta sissy #loser humiliation #dominated love slave #female dominance

[dandyshucks]

Guz would be giving me a great big hug, the kind where you pick someone up and twirl them around, for having such a successful socializing outing today :]

#i talked in the group even when i was afraid :] about isopods again but also other things dbdjsl #and i held up my end of the convo w this lady that I often struggle to talk to while we were waiting for the bus together !! #and also did not panic or cry or anything when someone yelled at me for smiling fhfkdl #(that person was unwell and i am not offended or upset at all fhdksl they have their own shit going on so i just hope they are okay) #and ALSO did not panic when a great big dog sniffed me as he and his owner were walking by !!! #(i LOVE dogs - theyre a lifelong special interest - but I was attacked by one a few yrs ago so theres a specific breed im terrified of) #(and this was similar to that breed (not exactly the same but similar enough that i still get scared) so !! huge win !! to not panic!!) #I DUNNO i know theyre all such mundane ''easy'' things but they are all very big for me fjfkdl #i will celebrate any win i can get fhjfkdl and these are genuinely all pretty big for me sdbfjkl #maybe it is silly but i have never denied being a silly goose LMAO #however i am very tired now fjfkdl if i can get some dishes washed so i can have a dinner tonight.... #maybe i can work on the valentines art hmmmm #we shall see !!! i would love to work on it though fhfkdl #dandy.cmd #💜so good at being in trouble