4 days ago by KIPI

So far, February has been about as pleasant and mildas a day in April. The spring flowers are about as confused as we are. On aparticularly bright, warm day last week, I made an afternoon trip to theCloisters Museum far up in Manhattan’s most northwestern corner. It is anextension of Midtown’s Metro ...

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5 days ago by steelcityartist

A few weeks ago, I was talking to my friend and emerging photographer, Tim Nealon who recently relocated to Savannah, Georgia from Somerset, Pennsylvania. He thought it would be a neat idea to use one of his recent sunset photographs of Tybee Island into one of my digital illustration creations. The ...

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8 days ago by Dafydd

Cross-posted from Monstrous Beauty. I decided to play around with Window Lives Movie Maker, and grabbed a couple of manuscript images as material. I kept playing for a couple of days and ended up with this, a survey of illuminated manuscripts from papyrus scrolls to the Renaissance. The choice of im ...

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19 days ago by Elizabeth Morrison

The current exhibition Gothic Grandeur abounds with images in the margin. These charming and often humorous additions, called marginalia (Latin for “things in the margins”), were introduced to manuscript illumination during the Gothic era. Initial C: The Massacre of the Innocents in a breviary, Fren ...

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36 days ago by RM

Source: Press TV The British society would begin 2012 with fraudsters, family members of convicted murderers and scandalous political donors walking the streets with royal honors. Queen Elizabeth II’s list of honors for the 2012 New Years featured several people … Continue reading →

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51 days ago by Elizabeth Morrison

On the opening page of the Abbey Bible, the first image we encounter is this roundel containing a scene of the Nativity of Christ. Detail of a nativity scene in Initial D: Saint Jerome with Scenes of the Life of Christ in the Abbey Bible, Italian (probably Bologna), about 1250–1262. Tempera and gold ...

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60 days ago by Elizabeth Morrison

Saint John the Evangelist in a 14th-century German manuscript; Marilyn Monroe by an unknown photographer. The luxuriant locks sported by this medieval figure might seem to say more “Marilyn Monroe” than “Saint John.” Both he and the movie star sport hairstyles from the glamorous ‘40s—in the saint’s ...

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78 days ago by Art Accomplice

I am a self-taught artist, commissioned to paint a family Coat of Arms...I prefer the look of the medieval black background, but cannot find many examples. Where could I find examples of old, dark paintings of Coat of Arms? And do you have any tips on painting armour? I have Winsor and Newton metall ...

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88 days ago by James "Bo" Salvatore Gorcesky

Since 7th grade BWMS art students are preparing their costumes for our Medieval themed newspaper fashion show, they should know a little something about Medieval artwork. To help bridge the connection between art history, social studies and costume design, students got to huge one of the various pho ...

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103 days ago by Getty Museum Pig

Here’s an artwork from our collection that makes me squeal…with terror! The multicolored demons attacking my pal Saint Anthony are hooves down the scariest creatures around. The blue devil is a total gangster. He bullied his way onto our new audio tour Demons, Angels, & Monsters: The Supernatural in ...

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