THE MATERIAL ARCHIVE

16th, 17th, & 18th century art, fashion, & objects. curated by ezra coronado.

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Edmund Blair Leighton

Alain Chartier

1903

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John William Waterhouse

Cleopatra

1888

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Simone Martini

Petrarch’s Virgil

1336

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Paul de Vos

The Leopard Hunt

1630s

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Stephen Poyntz Denning

Princess Victoria Aged Four

1823

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Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale.

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At the age of 18, Rolle (c. 1300-49) had abruptly broken off his studies at Oxford and, appalled by the vanity of the world, retreated to a hermitage in his native Yorkshire. He ended his days living in seclusion near a convent of Cistercian nuns at Hampole in the West Riding. It was probably for the spiritual guidance of certain of these nuns, women who were ignorant of Latin, that Rolle wrote the short English epistles now known as Ego Dormio, The Commandment, and The Form of Living. Rolle consistently lays stress on a combustive passion for God. […] Where secular poets such as Chaucer and Gower, and before them Dante, had sought to relate human love to its divine origin and had seen earthly passion as ultimately subsumed in an all-enveloping heavenly love, Rolle yearns exclusively for God, rapturously concentrating his heart and mind on the divine wooer of his soul.

I don’t mean to be That Person but I’d like to tell mr Sanders author of this book on English lit that this is… an awful lot of stress on the burning passion of god and on nuns

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Carrow Psalter, Above: Nativity/Annunciation to the shepherds, Walters Manuscript W.34, fol. 23r detail by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts Via Flickr: This English manuscript was made in East Anglia in the mid-thirteenth-century for a patron with special veneration for St. Olaf, whose life and martyrdom is prominently portrayed in the “Beatus” initial of Psalm 1. Known as the “Carrow Psalter,” due to its later use by the nunnery of Carrow near Norwich, it is more accurately described as a Psalter-hours, as it contains the Office of the Dead, the Hours of the Virgin, and Collects. The manuscript is striking for its rich variety of illuminations, including full-page cycles of saints, martyrs, and Biblical scenes, as well as historiated initials within the Psalter, and heraldry added in the fifteenth-century to undecorated initials in the Hours of the Virgin. Especially notable is the miniature portraying the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, for after Henry VIII found him guilty of treason in 1538, his image was concealed by gluing a page over it, rather than destroying it, and it has since been rediscovered. All manuscript images and descriptions were created and are provided through Preservation and Access grants awarded to the Walters Art Museum by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008-2014. Access a complete set of high-resolution archival images of this manuscript for free on the Digital Walters at thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W34 For a digital “turning the pages” presentation of this manuscript and downloadable PDFs, visit the Walters Art Museum’s Works of Art Web site at art.thewalters.org/detail/2767/carrow-psalter

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Artificer

Noun

[ahr-tif-uh-ser]

1. An inventor.

2. A craftsperson.

3. A mechanic in the armed forces.

Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French artificer, perhaps < Medieval Latin artificiārius

“The drops of dew which the artificer had sprinkled on the flowers were diamonds.” - William Makepeace Thackeray, Burlesques

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Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar (2018) dir. by Teresa Griffiths

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well now that you mentioned it,

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You know why? Because unlike those fuckers at Google, the librarian won’t snitch to the feds

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Paul and Ringo (1963)

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Adam Fuss - The space between garden and eve

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Madonna & Child by Andrea della Robbia

Florence, Italy - c.a. 1470.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection

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Head of Bacchus, Roman, 1st century A.D.

Source: The Getty Museum Collection

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The Sun and the Moon

[Tübinger Hausbuch, 15th c.]

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Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Fourth Angel Sounds the Trumpet and an Eagle Cries Woe

c. 1180, Spanish

“Illustrated Beatus manuscripts bring to life an extraordinary vision of the end of the world, as recorded by Saint John in the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation) and filtered through the lens of Beatus of Liébana, an eighth-century Asturian monk. These manuscripts are unique to medieval Spain and a testament to the pervasive artistry and intellectual milieu of monastic culture there. The leaf shown here comes from a manuscript disassembled in the 1870s. This illustration presents two key protagonists from the eighth chapter of the Apocalypse: the fourth angel, who sounds a trumpet as the sun, moon, and stars darken; and an eagle who cries woe to the inhabitants of the earth.”

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection - The Cloisters