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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

Update WIP: Thought I'd show you some progress on the two pieces I'm working on 😍❤️

Would you rather be a Knight or a Royal? (vote below!)

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2020-09-11

Andrea di Bonaiuto’s lively c1360s frescoes in Sta Maria Novella (Florence) are Dominican vision of the Church Triumphant, w/a contemporary pilgrim (nice badges!), a portrait of Averroes, and a view of the Duomo (before Brunelleschi)

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2020-09-10

A wonderful historiated initial Q depicting St. Michael slaying the dragon 🐲🗡✨ illuminated psalter from Southern Germany (diocese of Constance or Augsburg), c. 1240-60
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Learn more about this manuscript on our website here: https://t.co/ipyQhDZ6I2

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2020-09-01

Thanks for a great week, everyone! I'm going back to my regular account ( ). My thanks to and for letting me host this week. Here's a master thread of my threads from the week.

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2020-08-30

Interior of St. Etienne du Mont
1864 by Émile-Antoine-François Herson. Those staircases--sigh (1530-1535). 😍🥰
https://t.co/7PtqD40x3N

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2020-08-19

Spent hours looking at 19th- c watercolors. Fascinating/depressing. Some 17th-c covers survive, but changed: St Margaret's Church, Cley (💕the 1852 blue), while others are just the same: Enford (1865/today), both Norfolk.

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2020-08-18

The most identifiable animal from medieval bestiaries is the asp, which supposedly would block out snake charmers' magic by putting one ear against the ground & sticking its tail in the other ear.

Big antisocial mood.

(BL, MS Harley 3244, f. 61v)

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2020-07-31

1 And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

2 And she said "Is he....you know....?"

(BL, MS Royal 19 B XV, f. 20v)

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2020-07-30

I made their back ground their personalities

Want to know more about them?
https://t.co/P1fHqzdQH5 click this link using your feet.

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2020-07-22