#GothicManuscripts Sherborne Missal, 1399-1407, England, detail of the Resurrection. I think the sleeping soldiers kits are quite snazzy and colorful. The brilliant patterned red sky behind Christ is impressive & the dog snoozing nearby is quite cute.

I kind of keep forgetting to post here, but I will try to do better ... to make up for it a 1962 Harry Winston ad featuring a Siamese cat originally painted by Kwo Da Wei (aka David Kwok) whose lithographs were very popular in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Thinking about prof Jane Dawson's lecture last night: 'Rycht honorabill' ladies,' I cant stop thinking of Scottish 'revenge portraits' used to keep a feud alive. Especially in relation to images of Christ.. (The Bonnie Earl of Moray,'vendetta portrait'; Holbein, Body of the Dead Christ, Kunstmuseum)

Fantastic autumn leaves here in Ohio

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The Roman cage cup from Cologne, bearing a Greek inscription: ΠΙΕ ΖΗΣΑΙΣ ΚΑΛΩΣ ΑΕΙ - Drink, live well forever! Found in a grave in Cologne-Braunsfeld, dating 4th c. AD. We don't know how cage cups (or so-called Diatreta) were produced. There are several theories. The most common one argues...1/2 🏺

Cool article on #PortableAltars www.academia.edu/2900791/Tam_...

Tam forma quam materia mirabili: Workmanship, Material and Value in a Medieval Portable Altar

A small portable altar in the Walters collection (53.77) provides an opportunity to study the reuse and adaptation of an item valued not only by its original patrons but by subsequent owners as well. ...

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Eventum, A Journal of Medieval Arts and Rituals has just been published with some very interesting looking articles--best of all, it's free so independent scholars can access it: riviste.unimi.it/index.php/ev...

A superlative #BaptismalFont Amanduskirche, Bad Urach, Germany 1501 w Old Testament prophets similar iconographically to Claus Sluter's Well of Moses. Base reflects rotating squares typical of late Gothic Central Europe. flickr.com/photos/dierk... www.flickr.com/photos/bernd...

So. You need a map. Your editor insists, & the thing you downloaded from Wikipedia won't cut it. I can help! I draw custom maps on commission. My website has details about cost, process, etc, along with customer reviews: surprisedeelmaps.com Here are a few recent examples:

I got interviewed for the website about my project on medieval guide dogs 😊 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2023...

Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention

For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dog...

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Apologies for the lack of posts. #Romanesque Can anyone confirm that the figure in the top left is the Virgin Mary? Giselbertus, Weighing of the Souls, Cathedral of St. Lazare, Autun, France.

#CFP #Kzoo2024 Call for Papers: International Congress on Medieval Studies May 9-11, 2024 Kalamazoo, Michigan New Research on the Art & Architecture of the Medieval Parish Church Please submit abstract to Sarah Blick blicks@kenyon.edu by September 1, 2023

Incised into a reindeer foot-bone probably some 15,000 years ago, this engraving represents two hinds. The realistic rendering of the drawing is amazing! Found in the Grotte de Chaffaud. It's the first finds of paleolithic mobile art, discovered in the 1830s    Photo: RMN-GP. Jean-Gilles Berizzi

Hello, Trying this out. I'm still on Twitter and am unsure about here, but what invited by a very kind person. I work on #FontCovers in late-medieval churches in England. Pretty niche, I know. Plus I love cats, flowers, birds. All the usual pretty stuff.