🤸🏼 Yes, HUMAN ALPHABETS are a thing (because why not?) скачать в хорошем качестве

🤸🏼 Yes, HUMAN ALPHABETS are a thing (because why not?)

📕 My book "Stupid Faces in Stunning Paintings" is now available to pre-order (link on channel page). Human alphabets have been a thing since medieval times, because why not? From monks cramming tiny acrobats into illuminated letters to 18th-century illustrations of full-body breakdancing, people have been contorting themselves into typography for centuries. Whether it was for religious manuscripts, artistic experiments or just pure spectacle, human alphabets kept popping up, culminating in the Strand Magazine’s 1897 version, where three dedicated acrobats twisted themselves into every single letter. Painful? Absolutely. Impressive? Without a doubt. Images: The Human Alphabet, Illustration from The Strand Magazine, 1897 The Comical Hotch Potch, or The Alphabet turn’d Posture-Master, 1782 Illustration from The Tudor Pattern Book, 1504, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford The Human Alphabet, Peter Flötner, 1534, Nuremberg City Library