Poem by Jean Bouchet
Woodcut illustrations by an anonymous Ghent-Bruges artist
1505-10
Thursday, April 21, 2011
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!
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
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Rabbit Doctor and Two Patients
Barthelemy van Eyck
Book of Hours (decorated border detail)
Aix-en- Provence, ca.1445
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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