In 2013 art publisher Stephen Ellcock began selecting imagery and posting them on his Visual Rapture Facebook page. Five years and 200,000 Facebook followers later, Ellcock has an international following who avidly await his daily uploads and his carefully curated and sequenced albums of images. His selections of little known and public domain imagery regularly attain shares or comments of over 2,000 apiece. This is his first book and will appeal both to his digital followers and our image-focused, solace-seeking times. Evoking the medieval tradition of exquisite, illuminated books — providing meditative focus to help us understand and see the beauty in our world.
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