Tessera
Folgen

Mark Culham

@markculham.bsky.social

Where the bee sucks, there suck I

6714 Posts662 Follower643 Folgt
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 6h ago

Ninian Comper St Mary's, Cowley John the Evangelist is writing in the later temple of Artemis in Ephesus. Behind him Comper has reconstructed a fragment of column held by the British Museum and photographed by @chapps.bsky.social from a similar angle. The naked lad is Hermes guiding souls to Hades.

Stained glass 📷 Fr Lawrence Lew Comparing two details. A sculptural relief on a column with that depicted in stained glass. They are the same except the stained glass includes a reconstruction of one of the figures. Beneath is the whole stained glass scene where the column appears in the background. In the foreground, John is writing with his book resting on the back of a standing eagle.
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 8h ago

Ninian Comper Comper used the 15th century stained glass at All Souls College, Oxford, many times. For his Annunciation at Cowley (right) he used the architectural framing, in particular the lion section, that appears several times at Oxford (left).

Comparing two details of a lion on a pedestal, medieval and modern. They are the same. I've also included the two figures that are framed, in small images beneath.
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 9h ago

Ninian Comper The woodcut and Comper's stained glass at Beaconsfield appear to share the same template. There are a lot of images of Mary and Jesus playing with an apple. Jesus may hold it, Mary may be passing it to him, but I struggle to find any that are quite like these two.

Comparing the image from the quoted post with one in stained glass of Mary holding Jesus with one hand and an apple with the other. They're quite similar.
Dr Liam Sims@liamsims.bsky.social · 19h ago

Some wonderful side-eye from both Virgin and Child in this fifteenth-century woodcut. In the ‘De spiritualibus ascensionibus’ (Cologne, c. 1498), a work of mystical philosophy by the Dutch writer Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen. Zerbold taught Thomas à Kempis. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social SSS.47.1[3].

Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 15h ago

This would work in marzipan. I thought it was marzipan at first. There's the joke of the marzipan head eating marzipan foliage.

Malcolm Stoneman@malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 18h ago

St Andrew‘s Church, Harberton, Devon A “Green Man” Dr Sue Andrew (an authority on Devon roof bosses) states it is about confession - sin leaving the body through the mouth. The bosses may date to 1436, with some replaced in 1871 when they were painted. #Woodensday #WoodCarvingWednesday #medieval

A head with stems & leaves emerging from the mouth. Church guide - “Sue Andrew, says, while the motif has been the subject of much later fanciful speculation about fertility rites and charms, this common image was probably entirely consistent with the medicinal nature of religion, especially belief in contrition and confession. The head contained many portals through which the disease of sin could enter the body: eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. In order to attain salvation, this sickness had to be expurgated by bringing it out through the mouth in confession. The furrowed brows of many foliate head bosses may have emphasised their contrition.”
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's not clear what happens next. In terms of words the internet wasn't giving me much and I gave up after a bit. Some pictures say Herodias pierces the tongue of John the Baptist severed head, but the imported stained glass at Winchester Cathedral says it was his eyes.

Two details from the painting in the quoted post, one of John's severed head the other of a knife poised in Herodias's hand. Underneath the stained glass scene where she is cutting the eyeballs with a knife.
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 2d ago

2/2 Women messing w/ men's heads du jour #2: Salome shows up at dinner w/ head of John the Baptist. Tasty! By Juan de Flandes, 1496.

Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 2d ago

The central image is of a 'panel' held by the V&A which states it was made in England in the 16th cent. So, along with the left stained glass image below I have two British examples of the Emperor languishing at Catherine's feet. The rest are northern continental Europe and I could have added more.

Nine images of Catherine with a small Emperor at her feet. The examples include prints, wood carvings and stained glass.
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 2d ago

At the 'somewhat restored' 16th century stained glass at St Michael's, Baddesley Clinton, there is the addition of an Emperor's head, like a defeated dragon, at Catherine's feet. Rouen Cathedral (right) has similar.

Four pictures, comparing two details of a king's head looking up and the whole arrangement of Catherine, sword, wheel and Emperor's head. Quite similar.
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ninian Comper From what's left of medieval stained glass I get the impression Catherine of Alexandria was popular and this, the most popular image. Holding a little torture wheel with one hand, the other resting on the handle of a sword. Comper (centre) used this template at All Saints, East Meon.

Stained glass. A central crowned Catherine holding a small wheel with spikes, her other hand resting on a sword. She is surrounded by 14 smaller Catherines in medieval stained glass with a similar design.
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 4d ago

Farewell & Defiance to Love Love and thy vain employs, away From this too oft deluded breast! No longer will I court thy stay To be my bosom's teazing guest. Thou treacherous medicine reckoned pure, Thou quackery of the harassed heart That kills what it pretends to cure, Life's mountebank thou art.

John Clare@johnclare.bsky.social · 4d ago

1825: Wrote a Letter to William Hone's 'Every Day book' signed Roberts with a copy of Verses which I have titled 'A Farewell & Defiance to Love’ & fatherd on Sir John Harrington but I don’t suppose they will get inserted

Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sirens in a meadow sit and sing, Where dead men’s bones in heaps about them lie Rotting, and rivell’d skins lie scattering. Pass on, and their enchanting music fly. Command your mates to tie you to the mast; And that, if you make signs to be set free, They heed you not, but bind you still more fast.

A collage using a painting of Thomas Hobbes placed behind a bust commonly used to represent Homer. The text in the post is from the Odyssey as translated by Hobbes.
Chapps@chapps.bsky.social · 4d ago

One of my all-time favorite depictions of this scene is this fresco panel - also at the #BritishMuseum - which show bird-like Sirens playing their instruments, surrounded by the skeletons of their seafaring victims. Adorbs! 😍 🏺 #ancientbluesky 2/ 📸 me

On this wall painting of his encounter with the Sirens, the bird-women perch high on the rocks, surrounded by the bones of their victims. One plays the twin pipes, another a lyre, while the third is presumably singing. My favorite part is the little skeleton on the right side. This panel formed part of a wall of a villa at Pompeii, which was painted in the so-called third style, where central panels showing landscapes, still life such as fruit and fish, or mythological scenes, were framed by elongated frames of columns, candelabra and floral motifs. Evidently cut from the wall some time in the nineteenth century, this panel has lost its original archaeological context. Some damage, in the form of graffiti along the bottom of the surround, had already been inflicted on this panel by the time it was removed from the wall. Roman third-style fresco, ca. 50-75 CE, from Pompeii, Italy. British Museum (1867,0508.1354)
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tomorrow At dawn I'll leave You'll be waiting Through forest Over mountain I can't Stay away Any longer I'll walk Seeing nothing Hearing nothing Alone Unknown Back bent Hands clasped Day as night Sad Golden sunset Unseen I'll place A bouquet Green holly Flowering heather On your grave

A collage using a photograph of Victor Hugo placed in front of a painting of his daughter Leopoldine. Over these I've placed some flecks. The text is my abridged translation of his poem 'Demain, dès l'aube . . .'
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 5d ago

This last judgement roundel at Nowton is using a design by Jan van der Straet. Stained glass 📷 In Memoriam St Peter's Nowton Design engraved by Hendrik Goltzius Rijkmuseum

Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 5d ago

I fancy the illuminated manuscript picture in the quoted post is a world turned upside down scene. @enniusredloeb.bsky.social has been posting some harvesting scenes recently where the men are the reapers. Pretty sure I have seen men and women reaping together but where 🤔. I'll try to rack my brain.

A screenshot of a Bluesky post showing a harvesting scene from an illuminated manuscript where the men are reaping and a woman is stacking.
Simon Knott@simonknott.bsky.social · 5d ago

3/3 Women reaping and and a man baling, from the c1330 Luttrell Psalter, seen in the recent 'Medieval Women' exhibition at the British Library. Medieval Women: www.flickr.com/photos/norfo...

Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 5d ago

Pretty sure the youngsters are flying. Last year they collapsed the nest and it was easy to see them coming back to perch on the wires to be fed (and for a rest🤔). That one on the left might not be flying yet. So, I've read up on how to distinguish. Not much in it. I'll try next time they're busy.

Three photographs of housemartins in and out of two conjoined nests.
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 6d ago

🤔 Before, he was starkers whilst she might even have been fully clothed. Then she became starkers and he became fully clothed unless he was sculpted, then he was starkers. Something like that.

Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 6d ago

Searching snow in vain For footprints, her footprints When on the arm And fields were green. Kiss the ground Burning tears Pierce ice and snow Until earth seen. No momento But a frozen heart Her image within We're it to melt again The image would flow away. youtu.be/vNO9yZPdQUk?...

Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 4, Erstarrung

YouTube video by Andrè Schuen - Topic

youtu.be

CatFreak@catfreak.bsky.social · 6d ago

#LookAndSee 474 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky This is just for fun! No rules. I will post a pic often for your music association… 🎧 #LookAndSee (Day 474) 🎶

Claude Monet, The Road in Vetheuil in Winter
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 6d ago

Mary sits on her own patch of land (chalk cliffs🤔😊) and the land is on an architectural (grassy) platform. I was going to show how both are medievalisms but then I got lucky and found both together in the glass at Great Malvern Priory which Comper has used before. 📷 @simonknott.bsky.social

Comparing two details. One from the quoted post the other from medieval stained glass. I have also shown the full section of medieval glass of John comforting Mary at the crucifixion. The two details compare the bits of land and architectural platforms mentioned in the post. Not identical in appearance but similar idea.
Mark Culham@markculham.bsky.social · 6d ago

Comper used the figure in another compact Adoration of the Magi, this time in stained glass. St Cyprian's, Clarence Gate, London 📷 Fr Lawrence Lew

Adoration of the Magi in stained glass. Just the main figures: Mary, baby Jesus, and the three Magi, one of whom points to a star in the manner described in the first post of the thread.