1/2: Divinations 2022. James Fransham @TheEconomist @JamesFransham gma
Jan 12, 2022, 12:38 AM
Photo: "Joseph Enthroned". Folio from the Book of Omens (Fa'lnama), Safavid Dynasty. 1550. Freer Gallery of Art. This painting would have been positioned alongside a prognostic description of the meaning of this image on the page opposite (conventionally to the left). The reader would flip randomly to a place in the book and digest the text having first viewed the image.
1/2: Divinations 2022. James Fransham @TheEconomist @JamesFransham gma