Fuck Yeah Medieval Art

(and Early Modern Art)

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Medieval Manuscripts Depict A Terrifying Tale Of The Walking Dead

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Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a squirrel! The marginal illustration of a red squirrel brings some light relief to this rather sombre page, which is dominated by a grim illustration of the flagellation of Christ. 

In Britain the red squirrel is an endangered species, as the grey (a native of the USA) has proved more successful. In the middle ages though, the red ruled uncontested. I think this illustration is rather lovely.

The illustration is from a fourteenth century Book of Hours of the use of S.-Arnoul-les-Metz. It is now in the collection of the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

Image source: Beinecke MS 657. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Image believed to be in the public domain.

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shuddhi:

Descent of Christ to Limbo (detail)

1365-68

Fresco

ANDREA DA FIRENZE

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shuddhi:

MASTER of Heiligenkreuz

The Death of St. Clare

1410

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Liebeszauber (Love Spell) (1470s), artist unknown

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Athelstan, King of England from 924 or 925 to 939, presenting a book to St Cuthbert, chief saint of the English far north, the earliest surviving royal.

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Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411)

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Elizabeth I of England.

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Adoration of the Magi by Hieronymus Bosch,  c.1510

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Hieronymus Bosch.

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Hieronymus Bosch.

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Book of Kells.

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Icon with the Archangel Gabriel, 13th century.

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Wolfgang und der Teufel ("Saint Wolfgang and the Devil") by Michael Pacher, 1483.

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Alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan.