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Medieval hippo (‘ipostamus’). Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 106v.
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#Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
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#Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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

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

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

Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
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Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
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Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
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Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
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Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
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Dragon 1 out of 2 finished! 🐉

If anyone needs #art like this let me know bc I haven't goy any #commission this month!!

#illustration #Commissioned #MedievalArt #CoatOfArms #Medieval #Dragon #Dragons #ArtistsOnMastodon #MastoArt #FediArt

On my favorite RPG Sidequest rn. #Meme #RPG #RPGVideogame #Skyrim #fantasy #fantasybooks #fantasyart #Book #hopecore #Fantasycore #Pinterest #Adventurecore #escapism #medievalfantasy #medieval #medievalart #rpg #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #lotr #narnia #wizard #magic #characterdesign #cosplay #photography #aesthetic #LARP #SCA #HEMA

So what If I start a duel? #Funny #Meme #FYP #Shorts #fantasy #fantasybooks #fantasyart #Book #hopecore #Fantasycore #Pinterest #Adventurecore #escapism #medievalfantasy #medieval #medievalart #rpg #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #lotr #narnia #wizard #magic #characterdesign #cosplay #photography #aesthetic #LARP #SCA #HEMA

As per my last email...#Funny #Meme #FYP #Humor #Comedy #fantasy #fantasybooks #fantasyart #Book #hopecore #Fantasycore #Pinterest #Adventurecore #escapism #medievalfantasy #medieval #medievalart #rpg #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #lotr #narnia #wizard #magic #characterdesign #cosplay #photography #aesthetic #LARP #SCA #HEMA

How Your Email Finds Me...Costume by @Twinsofdestruction EXCELSIOR! #Funny #Meme #Joke #Email #fantasy #fantasybooks #fantasyart #hopecore #Fantasycore #Adventurecore #escapism #Pinterest #medievalfantasy #medieval #medievalart #rpg #dnd #HEMA #SCA #LARP #dungeonsanddragons #lotr #narnia #wizard #magic #characterdesign #cosplay #photography #aesthetic

It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday! ⚡

"As the last act on expulsion and departure, they used formerly
to make sacrifices in veneration of their god Thor.
[...]
After that, and in accordance with their custom, they would smear their own and their comrades’ heads with the drained blood and promptly spread the sails of their ships to the winds, thinking to placate them."
Dudo of St Quentin

🏛️ Thor the Wind-Raiser, whalebone idol, Lund, Skåne, #Sweden

#mythology #MedievalArt #history

#Exorcism. Vincent of Beauvais, Miroir Histoire (Speculum Historiale), Paris c. 1332-1335. BnF, Arsenal Ms-5080, fol. 176r.
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday! ⚡

"Then did Thrym say,
Thurses' ruler:
'To gain the bride,
bear in the hammer.
Lay now Miolnir
in the maiden's lap.
Make us husband and wife
by the hand of Var.'"
Þrymskviða 30, translation by Frank E. Bryant, 1903

🏛️ Bronze figurine identified as #Thor from Eyrarland, Iceland, discovered in 1815 CE

#mythology #MedievalArt #history

In 1342, the Franciscan John of Marignolli, as papal nuncio, presented a horse to the Emperor of China.
A talk by Nancy Wu, Educator Emerita of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, promises to range over 1,300 years from Avignon to Xanadu: https://www.medievalart.org/icma-news/icma-annual-idea-lecture-by-nancy-wu-john-of-marignolli-the-tribute-horse-and-east-west-encounters-in-the-fourteenth-century-monday-17-april-2023-in-person-and-online-register-today
#MedievalArt #ICMA #MetMuseum #14thCentury #YuanDynasty #Mongol #JohnOfMarignolli #medieval #medievodons @medievodons

Roundel with a Personification of the Moon ca. 860–890 #Carolingeanart #cloisonné-enameltechnique #Art #history #MedievalArt #TheMet