Suzette

'Das Kunstwerk ist grundsätzlich immer reproduzierbar gewesen' - Walter Benjamin

[lindahall]

Charles Knight – Scientist of the Day

Charles Robert Knight, an American wildlife painter, paleo-artist, and sculptor, died Apr. 15, 1953, at the age of 78.

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[wintercorrybriea]

Jean-Michel Bihorel

[cuties-in-codices]

gifts from above (miniature of the gathering of the manna; border illustration of men pouring out baskets of wild pansies with people gathering them)

page from a richly illuminated book of hours commissioned by an unknown member of the franciscan order and produced in flanders, late 15th c.

source: Munich, BSB, Clm 28345, fol. 89r

[cuties-in-codices]

scenes from the life of christ

pages with miniatures and liturgical chants from a dominician processional manuscript, produced in the dominician women's convent of st agnes in strasbourg, early 14th c.

source: Karlsruhe, BLB, Cod. St. Peter perg. 21

[cuties-in-codices]

trompe-l'œil

illusions of three-dimensionality (trompe-l'œil) in manuscript illuminatons from a codex containing st. jerome's translation of the chronicon of eusebius of caesarea. produced in padua or venice, c. 1480

source: Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 49, ff. 10r, 11r, and 13r

[katebushvgore]

[cuties-in-codices]

cosmological, astronomical, and other diagrams

(1. the harmony of the spheres; 2. the world and the orbits of the planets, sun and moon; 3. the ages of the world until godefroy of bouillon; 4. the connection between sun, moon and earth; 5. apuleius' sphere of life and death; 6. the five zones of the earth of macrobius)

illustrations from a 15th c. copy of the liber floridus, an encyclopedic work originally written by lambert of st. omer in the 12th century. this copy was produced in lille and ninove, c. 1460

source: The Hague, KB, Ms. 72 A 23

[cuties-in-codices]

bird marginalia

from the bible of borso d'este, illuminated by taddeo crivelli and others in ferrara (italy), 1455-61

source: Modena, Biblioteca Estense, MS.V.G.12 (= Lat. 422)

[finnlongman]

You know, I've seen manuscript abbreviations that looked like text-speak, but hand-drawing emojis to stand in for the word ceann (head) in a passage about Cú Chulainn being beheaded is taking that all to a new level

(The line from another manuscript: "Is ann sin d'éirgedar datha aille iongantacha do cheann Choingculoinn")

Manuscript is RIA 23 H 10, Oidheadh Con Culainn, written in 1808.

[finnlongman]

BREAKING NEWS HE DID IT AGAIN

"a cheann do bheith ar an ngad" but obviously when talking about heads on sticks we should just draw a ☹️ instead

[finnlongman]

He just keeps doing it. Every time somebody gets beheaded in this text, the word "ceann" gets replaced with 😐 And a lot of people get beheaded in this text (thanks Conall), so this happens a lot.

"Do bhain an 😐 de" He struck the head from him

[deaprojekt]

CHARLES FRÉGER

http://www.charlesfreger.com/portfolio/lepopee-de-jeanne-darc/

[lookcaitlin]

[strangememories]

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

[cuties-in-codices]

dissection techniques & anatomical figures

illuminations from the liber notabilium philippi septimi francorum regis, written by italian physician guido da vigevano. manuscript produced in southern france, c. 1345

source: Chantilly, Bibl. et Archives du Château, Ms. 334, fol. 260v-271v

[0022th]

Amy Brier’s limestone carvings

[discardingimages]

open-minded martyrs (Saint Denis and Saint Piatus)

‘Livre d'images de madame Marie’, Hainaut or Brabant c. 1280-1290

BnF, Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 84v

[cuties-in-codices]

dissection techniques & anatomical figures

illuminations from the liber notabilium philippi septimi francorum regis, written by italian physician guido da vigevano. manuscript produced in southern france, c. 1345

source: Chantilly, Bibl. et Archives du Château, Ms. 334, fol. 260v-271v

[xanaxfarts]

Timothy Cleary: ‘Bronze’ (2016)