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The Means of Communication issue of Lapham’s Quarterly contains a fabulous collection of complains and marginal notes by the monks assigned to copy manuscripts in the era before the printing press. With their bitchy complaints—“I am very cold,” “Oh, my hand”—they insert themselves into the holy texts and often, in the process, disrupt the sanctity of the words they’re supposedly copying: “Now I’ve written the whole thing: for Christ’s sake give me a drink.”
“St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing.”
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Reliquary Bust of a Female Saint, ca. 1520–30
Oak, paint, gilt Overall: 16 11/16 x 12 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (42.4 x 32.4 x 15.9 cm)The Cloisters CollectionThe MetOh dang, how awesome is her sassy face? I would totally put this on my bookshelf.
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IVERNY, Jacques
Hero and Heroine (detail)
c. 1420
Fresco
La Manta Castle, PiedmontThis illustration is perfect.
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Master of the E-Series Tarocchi
Italian, active c. 1465Logic, plate 22 from Arts and Sciences, c. 1465
Art Institute of Chicago
Will I ever stop being captivated by medieval-ish illustrations with super static, awkward poses? No, never. I can stare at these completely unrealistically posed illustrations for hours. Matt thinks they’re ugly and while I agree with him, they’re also really compellingly beautiful to me. I don’t know how to explain it. I think it has something to do with the human body being in such exaggerated positions to make them iconic.
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Horticus Deliciarum, 12th C.
I really love the design of this, would love to do something similar.
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From the Codex Manesse.
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The Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and his wife, Maria of Antioch
Manuscript illumination
12th Century
Currently in the collection of the Vatican Library, Vatican City.
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Tomb of Don Sancho Saiz de Carillo (detail) c. 1300 Tempera on wood, 51 x 86 cm Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
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UNKNOWN MASTER, Catalan
Tomb of Don Sancho Saiz de Carillo (detail)
c. 1300
Tempera on wood, 51 x 86 cm
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
