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  1. #Dragon vs. #lion. Hours of Jean de Montauban, Bretagne ca. 1450. Rennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1834, fol. 79r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  2. The medieval love story of Tristan and Isolde inspired Edmund Leighton’s 1902 painting ‘The End of The Song.’ The story of their eternal love is famous and has been told and retold in various formats over the ages. This high-quality print of the romantic painting comes with a beautiful hanger.
    shop.ancient-origins.net/colle
    #romance #artprint #TristanIsolde #MedievalArt #TimelessLove

  3. The medieval love story of Tristan and Isolde inspired Edmund Leighton’s 1902 painting ‘The End of The Song.’ The story of their eternal love is famous and has been told and retold in various formats over the ages. This high-quality print of the romantic painting comes with a beautiful hanger.
    shop.ancient-origins.net/colle
    #romance #artprint #TristanIsolde #MedievalArt #TimelessLove

  4. The medieval love story of Tristan and Isolde inspired Edmund Leighton’s 1902 painting ‘The End of The Song.’ The story of their eternal love is famous and has been told and retold in various formats over the ages. This high-quality print of the romantic painting comes with a beautiful hanger.
    shop.ancient-origins.net/colle
    #romance #artprint #TristanIsolde #MedievalArt #TimelessLove

  5. Creation of the animals. Holkham Bible, England ca. 1320-1330. BL, Add. 47682, fol. 2v.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  6. Sign of Pisces. Matfre Ermengau, Breviari d'amor, Occitania ca. 1300-1350. BL, Harley 4940, fol. 30v.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  7. Crowned cat. Scheibler Armorial, Germany ca. 1450-1480. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.icon. 312 c, p. 258.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  8. Catwalk. Miracle XXXI: 'How Saint Jerome and his companion beheld a little devil on the train of the dress of a woman of Bethlehem'. Jean Miélot, Jean Le Tavernier (illuminator), La Vie et Miracles de Nostre Dame, Audenarde 1456. BnF, Français 9198, fol. 91r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  9. Hot bath. Cité de Dieu (French translation of St Augustine’s De Civitate Dei), Paris ca. 1475. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 246, fol. 389r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  10. Ah, yes, the Bayeux Tapestry: that ancient scroll of doodles that apparently requires more brain power than solving a Rubik's cube while blindfolded. Who knew contemplating medieval embroidery was a secret test of your browser settings? 🧵🤦‍♂️ #JustEnableJavaScriptAlready
    economist.com/interactive/cult #BayeuxTapestry #MedievalArt #BrowserSettings #JavaScript #Challenge #RubiksCube #HackerNews #ngated

  11. Medieval hippo (‘ipostamus’). Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 106v.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  12. #Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  13. Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  14. Melusine making music. book of hours, France 15th century. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 662, fol. 21r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  15. #Hell. Speculum humanae salvationis (‘Krumlovský sborník’), Bohemia ca. 1420. Praha, Knihovna Národního muzea, III B 10, fol. 47r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  16. #Cat with eyebrows. Jean Mansel, ‘La Fleur des histoires ou les hystores rommaines abregies…’, France 1454. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5088 réserve, fol. 257r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  17. Christus und die minnende Seele. Gedicht von Christus und der minnenden Seele, Constance ca. 1490. Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 710(322), fol. 6r-20r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  18. Origen emasculating himself. Roman de la Rose, France 15th century. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195, fol. 122v.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  19. Mandrake. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber, England 12th century. British Library, Harley 5294, fol. 43r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  20. Rabbit and #Goliath. Pontifical of Renaud de Bar, France ca. 1303-1316. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 298, fol. 7r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  21. #AllSaints. Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480. BnF, Latin 920, fols. 180r, 181r, 182r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  22. Sea turtle. Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Utrecht, ca. 1340-1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 110v.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  23. Nine circles of #Hell. #Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Italy c. 1420-1430. BnF, Italien 74, fol. 1v.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  24. Winged musician riding a leopard. Anjou Bible, Naples ca. 1340. Universiteitsbibliotheek Leuven, Cod. 1, fol. 307v.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  25. Rabbit in the shell. Guillaume de Machaut, Prise d'Alexandrie, Reims ca. 1372-1377. BNF, Français 1584, fol. 336v.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  26. Initial ‘F’. Chansonnier of Zeghere van Male, Bruges 1542. Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 125B fol. 25v.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  27. Medieval art puzzle of the day: Bolesław the Bold murdered St Stanislaus. So when a 15th-c. artist painted a cycle celebrating Stanislaus, surely Bolesław gets a suitably awful ending?

    Nope.

    A post on imagining Bolesław's deathbed in a 1490 panel

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #medieval #medievalart #blog #research #BolesławII #BolesławTheBold #Budapest #MagyarNemzetiGaleria

  28. Crowned by #devils. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Fall of Princes (John Lydgate’s version of De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium), England ca. 1450-1460. BL, Harley 1766, fol. 200r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  29. #Bat in the tower. bestiary, France c. 1340. Montpellier, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H 437, fol. 212r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  30. Bishop boar on a camel. book of hours, Provence, ca. 1440-1450. NY, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.358, fol. 13r.
    #medieval #MedievalArt

  31. @vagina_museum Have you seen this?

    A giant vulva and labia, wearing a crown, and holding a crossbow and what is either a firey torch or a flogger/whip/cat of nine tails, rides on horseback

    Medieval brooches sure were something.

    #Medieval
    #MiddleAges
    #MedievalJewellery
    #MedievalArt
    #Jewellery
    #Art
    #Vulva

  32. A giant vulva and labia, wearing a crown, and holding a crossbow and what is either a firey torch or a flogger/whip/cat of nine tails, rides on horseback

    Medieval brooches sure were something.

    #Medieval
    #MiddleAges
    #MedievalJewellery
    #MedievalArt
    #Jewellery
    #Art
    #Vulva
    #SheelaNaGig