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Yes, this is a layup, but: we can't have without Cappella degli Scrovegni in Padova. These early 14th c. fresco cycles were influential for depicting spatial perspective and emotive human feeling in vibrant technicolor.

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2021-01-22

🔔 Upcoming 🔔

Join us next Tuesday at 7pm (ATH) / Noon (ET) to explore cross-cultural trade between the Byzantines & the Abbasid/post-Abbasid polities, guided by Koray Durak of Boğaziçi University!

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2021-01-21

Ufford & Sudbury, Suffolk. R.G., Vetusta Monumenta (1791) vol. 3, pl. XXV, pl. 25. Artist omited rope/pulley of counter-weight that pulled up the central iron rod & the “dark blue curtain” which covered all (still in 1825 print) + details cover now.

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2021-01-20

with this lovely piece of 14c from the British Library, MS Additional 49622, fol. 61r (The Gorleston Psalter)

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2021-01-19

Watercolor interior of All Saints' Church, Dunwich, Suffolk by Rooker, Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746 -1801); note peaceable cows. https://t.co/e43JoIVnL8
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2021-01-15

When your pet gets tired halfway through the walk and insists on being carried home.

(BL, MS Additional 62925, f. 76v)

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2021-01-13

in 1170, Thomas à Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was assassinated by four of Henry II's knights in Canterbury Cathedral. Want to know more? Check out this great podcast from : https://t.co/xQTD9Hofz4

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2020-12-29

What if we enter a 👑golden chamber👑 at the base of a tower in the Cathedral of and we find a monumental column statue? Who is he? Where does he come from?

The Portal of Glory: Architecture, Matter, and Vision
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https://t.co/s5rMHjKwy1 https://t.co/9Bz6LQeZfB

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2020-12-29

'Bierstern' or 'Brauerstern' (beer/brewer's star) looks like the Star of David, but is based in alchemy & believed to protect against fire and demons.
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2020-12-13

For this illustration i tried to NOT use references... I think i have improved my understanding of anatomy!

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2020-12-11

My 7yo is learning all about the Vikings at school and he loved the idea of a squirrel running up and down the World Tree. I’ve now taught him “Yggdrasil” and “Ratatoskr” and we’re having fun looking for relevant illustrations. Here are a few! 🌳 🐿

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2020-11-27

William Holman Hunt (of Pre-Raphaelite fame), Bushey Church Interior (1815-20) watercolor. As you can see, the Jacobean box pews are no longer there. Restored and extended 1871 by Sir G.Gilbert Scott w/1897 additions.
https://t.co/gJaiTpkWF5

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2020-11-19

🍂Welcome, 🍁November🍁, and bring to all of us peaceful and healthy days.🍂
(Book of Hours from Rohan, National Library CZ VI D 25) https://t.co/W1XOA4QnFN…

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2020-11-02

Whenever I introduce my students to relics, I love to ref Egeria (when someone bites the True Cross in Jerusalem), Hugh of Lincoln (who bit off the finger of Mary Magdalene), & share this from Maurice Sendak – 'he saw, he loved it, he ate it'

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2020-10-29

Stoke Pero Parish Church, Exmoor once had a font cover as evidenced by a 1837 watercolor by Rev. James Bulwer. Perhaps it was a late-medieval survival?
https://t.co/UGl5K2Pn4s

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2020-10-19

Every so often, a medieval illustrator decides that the Red Sea that Moses parted must *literally* be red.

(BL, MS Royal 19 D III f. 50; Morgan Lib, MSS m140, f. 044r, m43, f. 013r, m322, f. 063r)

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2020-09-26

Fabulous illustrations of natural history by Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600)-- seriously gorgeous
https://t.co/O3u68yRBHe

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2020-09-12