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bioeco · 2 years

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maharaja fateh singh crossing a river during the monsoon, by shivalal, ca. 1893, 82.6 × 158.8cm. city palace museum, udaipur.

painters in early/modern india sought to animate the intense presence of lightning during the monsoon season with a tactile metaphor—its strike was like a biting snake.

#shivalal #mughal india #just love this painting #miniature painting #manuscript painting #gouache #opaque watercolor #monsoon #lightning #indian art

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english-history-trip · 1 year

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Ever see a depiction of St. George and the Dragon? It's pretty fair to say if you've seen one, you've seen them all: Georgie on a horse stabbing a flailing dragon creature, princess piously kneeling in the background, vague landscape alluding to the homeland of the artist's patron.

The most varied part is the dragons. No one had a real definition for the thing, it seemed. For your pleasure and entertainment, I have ranked some medieval depictions based on how impressive George's feat seems once you see the dragon.

Paolo Uccello, 1456

This is a terrifying beast. The hell is that. Uccello was one of the first experimenters with perspective, so the thing also looks surreal, like it's taking place on Mars, or a Windows 95 screensaver. I would not want to fight that, I would not want to be tied to that. (Sometimes the princess is tied to the dragon for some reason.) 10/10

Horse thoughts: Maybe if I look at the ground it will be gone when I look up

Unknown artist, c. 1505

This is a rare change of form for the dragon; it's the only one I've seen actually flying (or at least falling with style). It doesn't look particularly deterred by the spear through its throat, either. Also, George looks appropriately nervous. On the other hand, it hasn't got teeth, it seems to be fuzzy rather than having scaly armor, and George is bolstered by his army of Henry VII and his children, most of whom definitely didn't actually die in infancy. Still, wouldn't want to fight it, wouldn't want my pet sheep near it. (Sometimes the princess has a pet sheep for some reason.) 9/10

Horse thoughts: I am so glad I wore my mightiest feather helmet for this

Raphael, 1505

We are coming to Dragons With Problems. This guy looks about comparable in size to George, and does have wings, but doesn't seem to be using these things to his advantage (and has he only got one wing?) And how does he deal with the neck? He does have a comically small head, but holding it up with such a twisty neck seems complicated at best. But most egregiously, he is doing the shitty superheroine pose where he is somehow simultaneously showcasing his chest and his butt, with its unnecessarily defined butthole (more on this later) (regrettably). 8/10 bc it's Raphael

Horse thoughts: AM I THE BESTEST BOI? AM I DOING SUCH A GOOD JOB? WE R DRAGON SLAYING BUDDIEZ

The Beauchamp Hours, c. 1401

We had a spirited debate about this one at work. Again, the dragon has gotten smaller, and this one hasn't got even one wing. He's basically a crocodile. So the debate became: would you want to fight a crocodile if you had a horse and a pointy stick? Would the horse trample the animal, who can't get on its hind legs, or freak out and throw its rider? Would the pointy stick be enough to pierce the croc's thick hide? In this case, George seems to be controlling his horse and putting his pointy stick in the dragon's weak spot, so we can be impressed by his skill and strategy. However, his hat is dumb. 7/10

Horse thoughts: Dehhhh

Book of Hours, c. 1480

Here we have the same kind of croco-dragon, but George's focus on his strategy has gone out the window. He's flailing around, not even looking at his target, he's about to lose his pointy stick, he hasn't got a hand on the reins, and his sword seems to only be poking the invisible dragon over his shoulder. All he's got going for him is that his hat is slightly less dumb. 6/10

Horse thoughts: Yay, new friend! Come play with me, new fr- what is happening

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Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1432

I'm thinking this guy is at least semi-aquatic. Webbed feet, wings that seem more like fins, bipedal but top-heavy, jaws that seem more for scooping than biting. Maybe she's crawled up here from the nearby body of water to lay her eggs, and this is all a big misunderstanding. Moreover, George's dagged sleeves seem entirely impractical for the situation. 5/10

Horse thoughts: i got my hed stuk in a jar and now it is this way forever

Unknown artist, c. 15th century

I hate this. I hate everything about it. Why has it got human eyes and teeth. Why is its nose melting. Why has it got a dick on its face and balls under its chin. The fin/wings are back but they look even more useless. Also, George is shifty as hell, schlumped over in his saddle with his bowler hat thing over his eyes. The baby dragon at the bottom eating some hapless would-be rescuer is kind of metal. 4/10 at least the thing is gonna die

Horse thoughts: I Have Smoked So Much Crack

Book of Hours, c. 1450

Remember what I said about the buttholes? First, sorry. Second, yeah, we're back to that. I'll admit this one is less about the danger from the dragon itself than the very specific choices the artist has made. They didn't need to do that. It's a lizard. They don't even have. And it's like they had an orifice budget and they skipped an exit wound for the spear to focus. Elsewhere. It's so detailed. And George had an even dumber hat. 2/10 take it away

Horse thoughts: I Have Smoked So Much Weed

Book of Hours, c. 1415

This is just bullying. There isn't even a princess. That is clearly an infant. Look at that smug look on George's face as he swings his sword that's bigger than the whole little guy. This is the equivalent of when DJT Jr. hunted those sleeping endangered sheep. 1/10

Horse thoughts: ....yikes

And this is the previous one, but now the baby dragon is cute. He's chubby. He's got toe beans. He's Puff the Magic Dragon. His eyes have already gone white, implying that George is just kicking its corpse around for funsies. What's the difference between the dragon and the lamb in the background? That the dragon is dead, like our innocence. This George is truly deserving of the dumbest hat of all. 0/10 plus one more butthole for the road

Horse thoughts: Perhaps it is we who are the buttholes.

#art history #nonsense #hot takes #I am doing a St. George painting and have been wading through reference material #manuscript #fuck me I didn't notice van der Weyden managed to sneak a butthole in his too #the definitive list #when knighthood was in flower

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vyrosk · 4 months

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🌒 |Vide Et Tace| 🌘

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fickes · 4 months

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bringing back Illness Illuminated to commemorate the three monthiversary of withdrawal from my stupid antidepressants that didn't even work

#art #artists on tumblr #illustration #comic #depression #antidepressants #drawing #illness illuminated #pain peasant #artist #digital art #clip studio paint #mental illness #medieval #illuminated manuscript

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upennmanuscripts · 3 months

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Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2676, is a picture book, containing drawings and miniature paintings of birds and animals, mythological beings, scenes of daily life, court scenes, and more. Many of the pictures are unfinished, upside-down or overpainted, suggesting a work in progress or a sketchbook. It is written in Sanskrit, circa 1700-1850.

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#manuscript #sanskrit #south asia #18th century #19th century #drawings #art #history of art #indian art #india #animals #birds #painting #sketchbook #picture book #book history #rare books

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laelapop · 3 months

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Here’s some homework I had for my medieval history class! We had to make a drawing in the style of old illuminated manuscripts, so I made a page for the Dadah Range from volume 1 of Witch Hat Atelier! 💚

#digital art #clip studio paint #illustration #digital drawing #artists on tumblr #my art #witch hat atelier #coco wha #illuminated manuscript

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sictransitgloriamvndi · 7 months

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#art #painting #spanish #book #candle #music #notation #skull #manuscript #velum #17th century

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wavesoutbeingtossed · 9 days

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Many of the songs on TTPD are about both one muse and all the muses because the through line is that they all hurt her in very specific ways. The All Too Well of it all of The Manuscript is the original sin, the first act that broke her by someone she loved*. Once you finish the album with The Manuscript, it reframes the rest of the album, because you realize that first betrayal of her trust and her faith has informed the way she’s moved through life since — and why the lines between these muses/situations are so blurry. Because the actions are specific to people, but the betrayal and the outcomes are rote; they repeat themselves over and over in different places and times. It’d almost be funny how completely predictable these men are if it weren’t so utterly devastating and earth shattering.

The story of The Manuscript hangs like a spectre throughout the entire album, illuminating why the things she felt and wanted were so painful to lose beyond the obvious, and why she felt like she had to keep settling or hurting herself in the aftermath. So TTPD is about each of them and all of them and they cannot be disentangled. What a tangled web we weave indeed.

#*i’d argue that the wcs situation would really be the first thing that did this #but i think the difference she’s painting in this album is that she genuinely loved Jake and believed him until she didn’t #the end result between jg and jm is the same (she felt used/something happened to her she felt deep regret about)#but the way they got there was different #the tortured poets department #the manuscript #i have a whole tangent about this about loml lol

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didoofcarthage · 2 months

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Initial G: Julius Caesar on Horseback (with detail of Caesar), from the beginning of a manuscript with De Bello Gallico

Italian (created in Florence), c. 1460-1470

tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink

J. Paul Getty Museum

#The scribe's handwriting is quite clear so you can read the opening of De Bello Gallico #I remember having to memorize that in Latin class #De Bello Gallico #Gallic War #Bellum Gallicum #Julius Caesar #illumination #illuminated manuscript #manuscript #miniature #painting #Italian #Florence #Florentine #Renaissance #Getty Museum #J. Paul Getty Museum

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scudden · 8 months

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Jon Snow :) Wanted to make a portrait with him with a medieval manuscript style border!!

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nobrashfestivity · 8 months

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Purkhu, An illustration from the ‘Lambagraon’ Gita Govinda series, C. 1820

#Purkhu #vintage illustration #illuminated manuscript #painting #indian artist

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othmeralia · 6 months

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This is an amazing German manuscript from circa 1671. It's called Kunst Buch von allerhandt rahren undt schönen inventionen so wohl in der Feuerwerckerey Kunst als auch in der Büchsenmeisterey zusammen and was written by Andreas Räbel, a pyrotechnician.

An original work of a 17th century pyrotechnician, with the formulas he used to make fireworks. This is a manual how to make and use them, in which the author betrays secret recipes for the construction of rockets, flares, bombs. Ingredients are specified: camper, antimony, coal, tin, orpiment, chalk, tree oil, mercury, line oil, brandy, ammonium, arcanuni, chlroide, resin, and a host of other untranslatable elements. The fireworks that Räbel describes come in all forms and shapes. Descriptions follow for the construction of rocket posts, launchers, and fixtures to be mounted on buildings, small castles, and castles. Shown in finely colored pen drawings, labeled with reference numbers and letters and provided with a scale. Detonators are describes, small bombs, smoke-balls, balls of light, fireballs, storm-balls, big guns, fireworks and hundreds of other instructions. He also narrates the memorable wedding of Emperor Leopold von Habsburg with Margarita Theresa of Spain on December 12, 1666.

#rare books #rare book #manuscripts #german manuscripts #german texts #alchemy #fireworks #balls of light #fireballs #firework displays #hand painted #hand colored #pyrotechnics #othmeralia

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artschoolglasses · 2 years

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Miniature from the “Hours of Catherine of Cleves,” The Master of Catherine of Cleves, 1440

#miniature #the hours of Catherine of cleves #hell #devil #the master of Catherine of cleves #master of Catherine of cleves #1440 #1440s #1400s #15th century #manuscript #illuminated manuscript #book of hours #painting #art #medieval

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simplysolo · 3 months

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zuko for the lovely @atlabeth

#i wasn’t expecting to actually paint anything #but then this happened #and i fucked with the editing to make it look sorta like a japanese illuminated manuscript #and then made it a bit neon and bright to give it some personality #anyways sadie hi hello my babe i love you thank you for the inspo #zuko #atla zuko #atla #zuko fanart #atla fanart #avatar the last airbender

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upennmanuscripts · 3 days

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Meet our friend the bat, on page 11 of Ms. Codex 3, three volumes of paintings or hand-colored sketches depicting mainly insects, fish and other marine life, birds and flowers. We don't know much about these books except that they were made in Japan, probably in the 19th century. If you know more, let us know!

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#manuscript #japan #japanese #drawing #sketches #painting #art #art history #19th century #bat #animal #book history #rare books

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cuties-in-codices · 9 months

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one-eyed giants

in an illuminated manuscript containing a german translation of "mandeville's travels", ca. 1471-1474

source: Stuttgart, Landesbibliothek, Cod. poet. et phil. 2º 4, fol. 47r

#the resemblance to picasso paintings is so uncanny imo #15th century #illuminated manuscript #mandeville's travels #jean de mandeville #cyclopes #medieval art

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