Fore-edge painting
（重定向自Fore Edge Painting）
![Jerusalem Delivered, an Heroic Poem, translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoole. London 1797; with fore-edge painting: Trajan's Arch, Ancona, Tasso in Prison and the Bridge of Sighs](/Images/godic/202501/13/Arch_of_Traianus,_Ancona_-_Tasso_in_Prison;_-_the_Bridge_of_Sighs4024.jpg")
A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of the pages of a book. There are two basic forms, including paintings on edges that have been fanned and edges that are closed; thus with the first instance a book edge must be fanned to see the painting and in the second the painting is on the closed edge itself and thus should not be fanned. A fanned painting is one that is not visible when the book is closed.