Marmalade-minestrone - Minestrone

A really nice winter sunset over the south rim of the Grand Canyon. I camped overnight and was not prepared for temperatures in the single digits (F) after coming from Death Valley…it was a long night. Grand Canyon, AZ - [OC][1335x2000] @mattymeis - mattymeis

Esther Scroll, Ancona, early 18th century

Handwritten text, unfinished decorated cut-away parchment Parchment, 8 membranes, 39 text columns,  23x458 cm Carved wooden roller Gift of Mrs. Erna Ascoli in memory of her husband U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art ON 0495

This scroll is a beautiful example of the particular style of decoration that flourished in the Italian towns of Ancona and Lugo in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Artists in these towns specialized in a laborious technique whereby the parchment was cut away to create an intricately patterned frame for the text that reminds us of the beautiful lace used in fashions of that period. This elaborate technique was employed to adorn megillot, ketubbot and a variety of Judaica objects. Only a few such Italian cut-out parchment scrolls remain today.

Botanical Gardens of Ireland, Dublin - August 2018

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Richard Anuszkiewicz, Stimulus, 1965. From: Albers / Vasarely / Anuszkiewicz: Three Generations, The J. L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, MI, April 20 – May 14, 1966

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Billowing Clouds and Rainbow-Hued Sunsets Created With Textured Embroidery Thread by Vera Shimunia

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