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Joris Hoefnagel

Guide for Constructing the Letter T

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Joris Hoefnagel

Guide for Constructing the Letter T, 1591–1596

Watercolors, gold and silver paint, and ink

Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Perfumed smoke. A sacrificial lamb. A grid framed by draped columns and dreaming incense burners. This T evokes ceremony, quiet grandeur, and the strange poetry of devotion.

This artwork is held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

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