Why am I meticulously creating a #pixelart version of one of Federico de Vinciolo's embroidery patterns of a #NotALion from his Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts (1588)? Dunno, but it seemed like it needed to be done.

Why am I meticulously creating a #pixelart version of one of Federico de Vinciolo's embroidery patterns of a #NotALion from his Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts (1588)? Dunno, but it seemed like it needed to be done.
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First posted on Twitter as a #NotALion on 23 April 2021: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Why am I meticulously creating a #pixelart version of one of Federico…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the twenty-third day of April, 2021. Finis.

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