Biblonia

Biblonia

Legends, words and images

biblonia
Aug 11, 2021
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More image than text. A leaf from a Pauper's Bible, a medieval iconographic project aimed at teaching the bible narratives to people who can't read (Latin).

Writing is a form of painting. Every script is representational, whether of things, as in rebus or logographic scripts, or of sounds, as in alphabets. Letters are signs, images, and they point beyond…

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