“Over the last thirty years Artemisia Gentileschi has received a good deal of attention

61 color and 75 b/w illustrations

it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

an early photographic album of Tehran

Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells medieval book “Over the last thirty yearsA copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks. Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have existed through the ages alongside other magic and religious texts in part because of the need to create a physical record of magical phenomena, but also to enact magic through spells and rituals. To understand the history of these texts is to understand the influence of the major religions, the