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the evolution of early medieval christian art is soo interesting. the idealism of madonna and christ to highlight their divinity and the avoidence of any humanity in early pieces. artists and patrons fear of appearing like theyre comparing christ to themselves. the devotion and faith that exists even just in the act of creating art and the materials used. gold leaf background and lapis tempera paint used specifically for mary to show hierachy and her divine royalty. and then later when classical inspiration returned and humanism made its place and jesus became a son of man again, not just a son of god. the sufferering christ vs the accepting christ.ughghtgh the way you can see peoples devotion to christ changing through art grgrgrrg
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Art by johnx
#y2k#y2k aesthetic#y2k style#y2k nostalgia#y2k icons#2000s web#old web#2000s#early 2000s#2000s internet#pixel art#dark souls#medieval
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Fifteenth century tarot cards, possibly the oldest known deck. Look how beautiful they are! These are from way back before they were used for cartomancy.
#tarot#tarot cards#divination#cartomancy#tarot history#occult#occultism#medieval#medieval art#early modern
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Wild Goats, Horns Interlocked
Detail from “The Ashmole Bestiary”
1511 (Bodleian Library)
#art history#art#history#european art#medieval#medieval art#middle ages#animals#catholic art#illuminated manuscript#illustrated manuscript#early medieval#medieval manuscripts#medieval history#goats
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JACK THE GIANT KILLER
originally this was a kind of personal visual vibe test: I'm still turning some thoughts around about jack in my head (altho I have finished assembling the skeleton of a story and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens when I start to press at it) but I really liked how it turned out so I'm posting it as it's own illustration :)
the first post about this idea is over here, but I've fine tuned it down a bit so that the story begins with jack finding the body of a giant while he's out in the woods one day, and the story spirals out of hand before he can stop it.
it's been interesting to read up on jack tales from a literary analysis point of view while I figure this story out!! and through the power of more coffee, I think. I'm close to pinning down an underlying theme I'd really like to bite into. I just need to condense it down to a couple of sentences instead of several paragraphs.
and to close this post out, here's another excerpt from the j.g. ballard's the drowned giant that haunts me!
bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara ⭐ ko-fi
#i had a whole thing about why i dont link to my ko-fi on art posts but a friend said i should at least do it on original art#also cara seems to be promising as an art porfolio site? if you're looking to jump off of dA because it sucks ass. cara looks good so far!#OKAY moving on from that. in my head there is also a weird fucked up story about the drowned giant I would love#to turn into a short comic. maybe early next year? I think I need to go to a beach and do some studies because in my mind#it has a very specific visual and tone. hmmmmmm.#I had a very vivid dream abt it and I want to attempt to capture it down onto paper#and moving on from THAT. to the man himself. jack. ohhhhhh can you imagine if someone would’ve done a fucked up grim dark#Jack novel in 2013 or something. I would’ve eaten that like a cake. this isn’t an intentionally grim dark retelling although it is. grim.#original tag#generic medieval tag
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Stained-glass panel by an unknown South Netherlandish artist, created between 1440 and 1460, depicting the head of a bishop. Now in the Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
#art#art history#Middle Ages#medieval#medieval art#stained glass#religious art#Christian art#Christianity#Catholicism#South Netherlandish#Early Netherlandish#15th century art#Metropolitan Museum of Art
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group therapy (they make each other worse)
#gwyn ap nudd#edern ap nudd#blodeuwedd#arthuriana#mabinogion#pa gur#medieval literature#welsh mythology#artists on tumblr#digital art#alcohol cw#art tag#------------------------------------------------------------#just as i don't think owain ap nudd exists i think gwyn godyfrion is gwyn ap gudd 😌#ok hear me out though#there are lots of gwyns in medieval welsh literature and i don't think they're all gwyn ap nudd (sadly)#but my man gwyn godyfrion. look. “dyfr” means water. like in the word dyfriog (watery). and gwyn ap nudd is very much associated with water#rides the watery horse du y moroedd. has a little chat with gwyddno garanhir who's the ruler of a kingdom that gets flooded.#dormach's funny flipper legs. rival gwythyr is associated with fire.#and there's the idea that annwn (of which gwyn ap nudd is the ruler) is itself underwater. and so on and so forth#sims-williams (‘the early welsh arthurian poems’ in arthur of the welsh. 1991) suggests godyfrion as a place name. underwater maybe.#so if gwyn godyfrion is “gwyn from under the water” i don't think it's unreasonable to suggest he's in some way connected to gwyn ap nudd#“but dizzy!! gwyn godyfrion is mentioned alongside gwyn ap nudd in culhwch and olwen!” the answer is that i simply choose to ignore that#while we're on the topic. the ddylad in creiddylad = flood#ok class dismissed#anyway gwyn and creiddylad i am pleased to tell you that my irl name means “sea” 😌 i am one of you
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#dreamling#the sandman#the sandman netflix#dream of the endless#hob gadling#sorry not sorry but i love them in 1389#i have a soft spot for early medieval clothes#my art
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commission of Mort and Ysabell for @operativehog
pastel renfaire goth and forced renfaire goth fall in love. more at 11
#discworld#i headcanon it as anywhere from late medieval - early regency clothes work for discworld and i wanted them to match#mort#ysabell embraces the goth but makes it pink#mort gets sucked into it#my art#discworld fanart
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Please appreciate the effort I put into the patterned trims thank you
#my art#four swords#fsa them#fs vampire lords au#okay but the medieval clothing research i did made me so happy#im gonna do some more#eventually#i should work on balancing the detail#but it was fun#i took details and the shape of blue's tunic from something a bit more scandinavian#red is based on some mid medieval french illustrations#greens outfit is more from late medieval to renaissance german#ish#and vio is closer to early medieval british saxon stuff kinda#really loose but that direction
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Colonel Allison Maverick of First Cavalry and the Violet Crown. Defender of Austin, warrior of the faith, and baddass cowgirl. A post-post-apocalyptic gal, since medieval cowgirls is a concept that kicks fucking ass
#worldbuilding#americana#digital art#after the end#cowgirl#post apocalyptic#post post apocalypse#medieval#imagine how much cooler Texas would be if they regressed to the early medieval era’s tech
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some tristamp ww sketches cuz i miss him
#nicholas d. wolfwood#meryl stryfe#trigun#trigun stampede#my art#he hasn’t gone anywhere but i still miss him#i have many more trigun things i want to draw but alas. school has been unkind#idc abt medieval art history anymore i just wanna draw ww#<<< idiot who decided to take four art history classes back to back#ANYWAYS. ART HISTORY ASIDE.#i think the last ww here is my fave one….hehe#also i personally feel like he’s in his early 20s at least tristamp ww is NDJSJDJS#perhaps i am…..projecting………#idk tristamp ww just feels significantly younger#maybe it’s cuz tristamp is supposed to be like. a prequel n stuff so
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#The Golden Rose#Alain#Ysabella#my art#Fanart#It took my a while to decide what era I wanted to pull from fashion wise#Like I know that the golden rose isn't historically accurate at all but it is still meant to be vaguely medieval#and I'm a nerd so#I eventually decided to take inspiration from the quattrocento (with many liberties taken)#because technologically the story seems kind of 15th century#what with the plate armour and galleons#and yes the 15th century is late medieval/early renaissance but given the story is about recovering lost ancient knowledge#it being the dawn of the renaissance kinda works#plus quattrocento fashion is pretty so there's that#There are other reasons too but I'm going to stop rambling in the tags now
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A selection of images from a sequence depicting the alchemical process, from an early modern manuscript.
#alchemy#alchemical#alchemical symbolism#alchemical art#occult#manuscripts#manuscript#medieval studies#early modern#renaissance
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A Lance with a preserved haft recovered from a grave in Trossingen, Germany,
OaL: 11 ft 9.3 in/359 cm
Head Length: 24.8 in/63 cm
ca. AD 580, housed at the Archaeologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg.
#weapons#polearm#spear#lance#europe#european#germany#german#trossingen#early medieval#archaeologisches landesmuseum baden-wurttemberg#art#history
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Episode 17: Kathryn Maude on politics, the queen as evangelist, and the 11th century Encomium Emmae reginae
British Library Add MS 33241, fol. 1v
In Episode 17 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot and Lindsey chat with Kathryn Maude about the 11th century Queen Emma, who was married to and had children with both the English king Æthelred the Unready and his successor the Danish king Cnut the Great. The resulting political situation was complicated, and the Encomium Emmae reginae can help us understand the lines that Emma was attempting to walk as her sons grew into adulthood and prepared to take the throne. The text survives in two copies, the earliest one of which is British Library Add MS 33241, believed to be the copy that was presented to Queen Emma herself. Kathryn walks us through the manuscript and we talk about both the politics and the materiality of this fascinating text.
Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts.
Below the cut are more photos and links relevant to the conversation.
British Library Add MS 33241, aka Encomium Emmae reginae (digitized online)
Folio 1v, the presentation of the book to Queen Emma, with her sons peeking out from the margin.
A close-up of folio 1v focusing on Emma and her sons.
A close-up of folio 1v focusing on the scribe presenting the book. Note that his hands are covered with a cloth. The son's hand has been added.
A close-up of folio 1v focusing on the curtains
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 11, miniature of Saint John, folio 107r
Close-up of folio 107r focusing on the curtains. Note Saint John holding the book with a cloth around it.
Copenhagen, Royal Danish Library, Acc. 2011/5, aka Courtenay Compendium, which contains the late 14th century copy of the Encomium Emmae reginae (apparently not digitized)
Doors of Durin, drawn by JRR Tolkien.
The Doors of Durin (Gates of Moria) from the Fellowship of the Ring film by Peter Jackson
Middle Aged Women in the Middle Ages, edited by Sue Niebrzydowski. Gender in the Middle Ages, Volume 7. D. S. Brewer, 2011.
Folio 18r, Sven and Cnut's names are capitalized Half Uncials while the rest of the text is a regular Carolingian script.
Folio 48r, another example. Here Emma's name is capitalized at the top.
A king pointing to the text on folio 46r - "a manicule with a king attached" - with a note written beneath in the later middle ages, probably at Saint Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury.
An ugly manicule (hand pointing at the text), folio 46v.
Folio 5r, a gloss in the margin.
Folio 60r, an emoji in the margin of a couple of eyes to annotate the word oculi (Latin for eyes) in the text.
Close-up of the eyes.
Folio 58v, the parchment has been mended during the parchment preparation process, before the text was written.
Folio 54r, space was left for initials that were never added (the penciled M is probably contemporary but was never decorated)
Folio 2r, the first page of text, featuring a zoomorphic initial (i.e., an initial in the shape of an animal, in this case some sort of dragon and a fish eating each other) and colorful capitals.
Folio 8r, a zoomorphic initial R made of more critters eating each other. Good for a tattoo?
Folio 19v. "Explicit Lib[er] I" means the end of book 1, and "Incipit Secundus" means the beginning of [book] two (the second book).
Folio 50v, featuring Lindsey's ugly manicule
A close-up of the manicule
The Annunciation of Mary in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 11
We talked to Brandon Hawk about the Vercelli Manuscript in Episode 7.
A hedgehog in the Luttrell Psalter (folio 19v)! (See it online)
"The Social Centrality of Women in Beowulf: A New Context" Dot's very first published article!
#medieval#manuscript#queen emma#medieval art#art history#early england#latin#parchment#book history#rare books#inside my favorite manuscript#podcast#imfmpod
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