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Creation and rebellion in Blake’s illuminated plates.
Norwegian fairy tales illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
Four colour drawings from a 1908 Gnostic text.
From the dark wood to Paradise with Gustave Doré.
Ethelwynne Quail’s visions of the spirit world.
Art Deco studies of fear by John Vassos.
18 illustrations
Small narrative scenes occupy a great circular field around a central disk.
A heavily robed monk looks upwards with wide eyes beneath a close hood.
A great fierce head looks over a rectangular frame divided into many small narrative compartments.
A great circular wheel is divided into densely populated compartments beneath a monster’s head.
A crowned figure sits upon a great lotus with several arms extending around the body and holding different attributes.
Bell-shaped stone structures with diamond-shaped openings fill a broad terrace.
A seated figure with flowing white garments and a radiant circular halo looks down from a rocky island.
A bearded monk in a red robe sits beneath a rocky opening edged with leaves.
Many small divinities, teachers and guardian figures occupy a layered architectural field.
Overlapping coloured compartments and numbered circles map the arrangement of the painted assembly.
A serene seated figure rests on a layered lotus pedestal against a deep blue ground.
A central seated Buddha is surrounded by many smaller figures arranged among clouds and rocky terraces.
A central sacred figure sits within a ring of petal-like compartments surrounded by rows of smaller Buddhas.
A pale seated deity rests upon a lotus throne within a radiant multicoloured halo.
Several robed figures sit and stand upon flowing lines within a pointed leaf-shaped outline.
A pale fierce-faced figure sits before an immense halo of pink flames.
A red female figure raises one hand within a ring of gold flames while teachers and protective figures occupy the surrounding blue field.
Small painted divinities interrupt lines of gold script upon two long dark manuscript panels.
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