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27
Jun
2009
Metropolitan Museum of Art  

9 days ago by admin

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, known colloquially as The Met, is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, USA. It has a permanent collection containing more than two million works of art, divided into nineteen curatorial departm ...

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25
Jun
2009
Medieval Tile  

11 days ago by admin

I admit this is one topic I really had not considered – but quickly realized that it was probably a very important one in the history of the Middle Ages. Consider that almost every castle, cathedral or public building utilized tiles for flooring and on walls. The predominant type of tile was the “en ...

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23
Jun
2009
Medieval Drawing  

13 days ago by Deborah Barlow

Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages at the Met includes this Crucifixion by Opicinus de Canistris from the mid-1300s (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City) When you think of medieval art, drawing may not spring instantly to mind. Medieval ivories and enamels? Definitely. Medieval s ...

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19
Jun
2009
Scriptoria  

17 days ago by I, Enoch

Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages at the Met includes this Crucifixion by Opicinus de Canistris from the mid-1300s. (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City) {Source: NYTimes.com, from article “Those Medieval Monks Could Draw” by Robert Smith, a review of the “Pen and Parchment: Dra ...

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13
Jun
2009
Benozzo Gozzoli: St. Francis Frescoes, Montefalco, Umbria  

23 days ago by tuscanyumbriavilla

St. Francis Fresco Cycle by Benozzo Gozzoli in Montefalco, Umbria Benozzo Gozzoli was a student of Fra’ Angelico, his most famous work is the frescoed room in Medici-Riccardi Palace in Florence, showing members of the Medici family dressed up as the wise men in the J ourney Of The Magi. Benozzo Gozz ...

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10
Jun
2009
The Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Umbria  

26 days ago by tuscanyumbriavilla

Two years after St. Francis of Assisi died, construction began on the impressive double church that is the Basilica of Saint Francis. The first stone was laid by Pope Gregory IX in 1228, a symbolic act that marked the huge importance of St. Francis to the Church. The double Basilica comprises two ch ...

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Medieval Women In Armor  

26 days ago by admin

In my plodding along to build Medieval-Living.com, I came upon a wonderful website connected to an equally wonderful blog. Medieval Material Culture The article that caught my attention was “Medieval Women in Armor”. It has a series of depictions of women wearing armor, from Joan of Arc to Isabella ...

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06
Jun
2009
Simone Martini: St. Martin Fresco Cycle, Basilica of St. Francis, Assisi, Umbria  

30 days ago by tuscanyumbriavilla

Chapel of St. Martin, Lower Basilica, Assisi, Umbria. Frescoes by Simone Martini In a side chapel of the Lower Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi you will find a beautiful fresco cycle painted by Simone Martini depicting the life of Saint Martin. The story of Saint Martin has certain parallels with ...

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03
Jun
2009
Giotto’s St.Francis Fresco Cycle: Basilica of Saint Francis, Assisi, ...  

33 days ago by tuscanyumbriavilla

Saint Francis of Assisi Saint Francis of Assisi is Umbria’s most famous saint and one the most well known saints in the world. During his lifetime he preached the need to follow a simple way of living and started a huge religious revival. This back to basics interpretation of Christianity probably w ...

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