Pieces of Sky

Cosmos , Poppies , etc. - Julia Whitney Barnes ,  2020.

American , b.

HELL JAZZ

Purple Heron - Garça-vermelha (Ardea purpurea)

Sesimbra/Portugal (10/07/2026)

Talamanca Hummingbird (Eugenes fulgens), males, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, western Panama

Watch crafted by Nicholas Vallin of London, circa 1600

Shield of Achilles by Philip Rundell, originally modeled and cast in plaster by John Flaxman

English, 1821-1822

Silver-gilt convex shield

An ex-libris, also called bookplate, is a kind of printed stamp at the beginning or end of a book that says who owns it (think of the stamp you surely have seen in the books owned by a library). Though ex-libris have been used since ancient times, their "golden age" in Catalonia was during the Modernist movement (the Catalan equivalent of Art Nouveau), where many bookworm people commissioned artists to have a beautiful personal ex-libris that they could use to stamp all their collection.

The text in the 1st one, written in the Catalan language, says "no matter how much you know, there's always much more that you don't know" (per molt que sapies es molt mes lo que ignores).

Riften Pier

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim