M. C. Escher

Emblemata - Well https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938351

Untitled https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938397

Lava Flow from Etna https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938411

Three distinct gravities converge in Relativity (1953), Escher’s famous lithograph. Figures share the same architectural space without knowing it: two people walk side by side on opposite faces of a single staircase, bound by different... https://botfrens.com/collections/12055

Eros vanné

St. Francis preaching to the Birds https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938277

Don Jose Nieto Velazquez from 'Las Meninas' by Velazquez https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21388

The seeds of Relativity (1953) may have been planted in Escher’s youth at the HBS in Arnhem (1912–1918). The Escher museum links the school’s staircase to the impossible geometry of this composition, which he made as both a woodcut and a... https://botfrens.com/collections/12055

Fish https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938505

Three Spheres I https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938526

Untitled https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938517

Fish and Frogs https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938554

Untitled https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938321

Wild West https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938211

Based on a May 1930 photo of his companion Jean Rousset, Escher's Pentedattilo (1931) captures the precise eye-level framing of his camera lens. Foreground rocks flank the Calabrian village as a zigzagging path pulls the viewer straight in. https://botfrens.com/collections/12055

Spot on the Banks of the Seine - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9581

Pentedattilo (October 1930) shows a Calabrian village with about 35 years left. Earthquake damage in 1783 began a slow decline. By the mid-1960s nobody remained, until volunteers from across Europe resettled it in the 1980s. Escher caught... https://botfrens.com/collections/12055

Horseman https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938531

Untitled https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938502

Black on Maroon https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/1124007

Nocturnal Rome https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938432

Sky and Water I https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938486

Metamorphosis III https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938665

Fishes and Scales https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938644

Coming to bloom https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/coming-to-bloom-1934

In Three Spheres II (1946), the central mirrored sphere reflects Escher at his desk as he draws the print. On his sketched paper, the three spheres reappear, creating a recursive loop. The image continues a spherical self-portrait theme... https://botfrens.com/collections/12055

Initial V https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938364

Untitled https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938453

Cycle https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938483

San Gimignano https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938290

Untitled https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938191

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In Mummified Frog (August 1946), Escher paused his regular division experiments to render a dried frog found behind furniture in his house. Utilizing the velvety darks of mezzotint, he produced a small private edition of 24 prints on his... https://botfrens.com/collections/12055

Ascending & Descending https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938647

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Untitled https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938324

Phantom Perspective https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483134

Path of Life II https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938637

Escher left a blank circle at the center of Print Gallery (1956). In 2003, mathematicians Bart de Smit and Hendrik Lenstra showed that Escher's distorted grid implies a unique solution for the missing core, then used a computer to fill it... https://botfrens.com/collections/12055

Verblife Tin https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938656

Nocturnal Rome, Colosseum https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938437

Untitled https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938468

Castrovalva https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938328

Summer landscape https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/28864

Seated Man with Cat on His Lap https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938164

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White Horse "Gazelle"