dearorpheus:

Some of my favourite books (pdfs) you can get for free from MetPublications:

Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy: Images from a Scientific Revolution
The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt
Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art
Cochineal Red: The Art History of a Color
Herbs for the Mediaeval Household for Cooking, Healing and Divers Uses
Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers: Medieval Gardens and the Gardens of The Cloisters
The Pietà in French Late Gothic Sculpture
The Eighteenth-Century Woman

And here’s where you can go through all 569 available, if you so choose.

kingsquotes:

Books live at my house.  They go from room to room and lounge on various pieces of furniture.  They go to work and to the store with us.  They sit at the kitchen table.  They ride in the car and fly in planes with us.  They live with us and pay rent in fantasy.  

wordpainting:

““Sections in the bookstore – Books You Haven’t Read
– Books You Needn’t Read
– Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
– Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
– Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
– Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
– Books Too Expensive Now and You’ll Wait ‘Til They’re Remaindered
– Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
– Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
– Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too
– Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages
– Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success
– Books Dealing with Something You’re Working on at the Moment
– Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case
– Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
– Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
– Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
– Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time to Re-read
– Books You’ve Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It’s Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them””

— Italo Calvino; If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler