Demeter's Dilemma
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Mary Magdalen
This is a little sketch I'm using for an icon I'm making of Mary Magdalen
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Anatomical Man
From The Tres Riches Heures of Jean Duc de Berry
Paris, ca. 1410-16
An English Bestiary
ca. 1210 North Midlands, England
Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Soul of a Dead Fox Burns in Hell in a Cauldron Stoked by Demons
Poem by Jean Bouchet
Woodcut illustrations by an anonymous Ghent-Bruges artist
1505-10
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Goats
Abu Bakhtishu
Manafi al-Hayawan (Uses of Animals)
Persian, 1290-1300
Note: The text explains that goats can fall from very high places and break their fall by landing on their horns!
St. Michael battling the seven-headed beast
Apocalypse picture Book
London, ca. 1255-60
Basilisk
Sketched from the book "Metropolitan Museum of Art; a Cloisters Bestiary"
by Richard H. Randall, Jr.
detail of an archway from the church of St. Cosmus
France, ca. 1250
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Mouth of Hell
Mouth of Hell; Office of the Dead
Book of Hours
Utrecht, ca.1440
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Rabbit Doctor and Two Patients
Barthelemy van Eyck
Book of Hours (decorated border detail)
Aix-en- Provence, ca.1445
Two Elephants
Abu Bakhtishu
Manafi al-Hayawan (Uses of Animals)
Persia, Maragha, ca. 1290-1300
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Creatures from the Ends of the Earth
"Wonders of the World"
Therouanne (?) ca. 1277
A Dragon
Bestiary
Therouanne (?) ca. 1270
Initial A: Pentecost
Attributed to Stephano da Verona
Lombardy, ca. 1430-35
A Dragon
Bestiary
England, between 1255-1265
A Siren and a Centaur
Bestiary
Therouanne (?) ca. 1270
Wild Boars
Book of the Hunt
Gaston Phebus
Breton, ca. 1430-40
Hares
Book of the Hunt
Gaston Phebus
Breton, ca. 1430-40
A Sloth
Joris Hoefnagel
Model Book of Calligraphy
Vienna, ca.1591-96
Reliquary
Vessel for the heart of Anne of Brittany with crown
Loire Valley or Paris, 1514
A Man Hawking
Psalter
Flanders, ca.1250
The Creation
Master of the Dresden Prayer Book
Isabella Breviary
Bruges(?), ca. 1490-97
Scenes from the Life of Absalom
Leaf from the Morgan Picture Bible
Northern France, ca.1250
A Lion
Physiologus
Crete, ca 1510-20
Hedgehog
Bestiary-
Therouanne, ca 1270
Nebuchadnezzar as a Wild Animal
Rudolph von Ems, World Chronicle
Regensburg, ca.1400-1410
Bear with Bees and Beehive
From "The Flower of Virtue"
Northern Italy, ca 1400-1425
Horses and Knights in Battle
Bestiary ca.1230
England
The Creation of the World
from The Marquette Bible
Lille 1270
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