See the Collections and shop for Posters and Greeting Cards at http://spiritoftheages.com or visit the CafePress store at http://www.cafepress.com/spiritoftheages. It is a splendid resource that also provides the opportunity to purchase gifts including Reproduction Prints and Greeting Cards. The Medieval and Renaissance Collection presents a visually and historically significant collection of near
ly 1,000 examples of Medieval and Renaissance art, including a monumental depiction of the Emperor Maximilian in Triumph surrounded by the Fates (Dürer's "Great Triumphal Chariot of Maximilian I") shown in the Albrecht Dürer Collection, pages from "Liber Chronicarum" ("The Nuremberg Chronicle") showing the creation of the World and cartographic work by Münster ("Cosmographia") and Ruscelli ("Geographia"). Illustrations for "Moriae Encomium" ("The Praise of Folly") and "Der Todten-Tantz" ("The Dance of Death") are shown in the Hans Holbein Collection and Georg Scharffenberg's images for "Der Todten-Tantz" ("The Dance of Death") are also on display. Similarly, a complete set of the illustrations from the famous 1775 Kurzböck printing of "Der Weiß Kunig". Images are also shown from works commissioned by Emperor Maximilian, including "Theuerdank" and "Seel unnd heiligen Buch Kaiser Maximilians Altfordern". The Golden Age of Illustration Collection contains more than 5000 genuine antique and vintage illustrations from some of the greatest Golden Age artists, including those from England, France, Germany, Australia, Holland and the United States of America. Wonderful images will greet you from tales like "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", "A Midsummer-Night's Dream", "The Tempest" (with versions from Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac), "The Arabian Nights" (with versions by Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Edward Julius Detmold, René Bull, Virginia Sterrett and Thomas Mackenzie), "Arthur and His Knights", "Tales from Hans Anderson" (with versions by Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Dugald Walker, Harry Clarke and Duncan Carse), "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" (with versions by Edmund Dulac, W***y Pogány, René Bull and Anne Harriet Fish), "Alice in Wonderland" (with versions by Arthur Rackham and Adrienne Ségur), Dante's "La Vita Nuova", Wagner's "The Ring of Niblung" (with versions by Arthur Rackham and Maxfield Parrish), Poe's "The Bells and Other Poems" and Goethe's "Faust" (with versions by W***y Pogány and Harry Clarke). Other artists represented in the Golden Age of Illustration Collection include Gustave Doré, Romain de Tirtoff (Erté), Sulamith Wülfing, Jessie M King, Warwick Goble, Violet Brunton, Reginald and Horace Knowles, Frank C Papé, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Edward Burne-Jones, William Russell Flint, Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, Sidney Meteyard, Florence Anderson, Léon Bakst, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, John Bauer, Daphne Allen, Dorothy Lathrop, Sidney H Sime, Vernon Hill, Gustaf Tenggren, Leo Bates, Evelyn de Morgan, John Byam Shaw, Ivan Bilibin, Newell Convers Wyeth, Jean de Bosschère, Carl Otto Czeschka, Richard Doyle and Gustave Moreau. The 'Petit' Collection also highlights lovely images from artists with more minor representations within the Collection.
