#art of cyril

[thunderstruck9]

Cyril Power (British, 1872-1951), The Tube Staircase, 1929. Linocut printed in yellow, cobalt blue and black on thin oriental laid paper, block: 444 x 258 mm.; sheet: 532 x 320 mm. Numbered 30/50

[hinamie]

new limited edition firefighter spacesuit hazmat itfs just dropped

[strange-and-unusual-bibelot]

I just really like that little part when possessed Cybil is riding the horse on the Merry-go-round waiting to fight Harry, in Silent Hill, its just a fun little animation they did for the game and it gives it a little more personality.

[dandelionfool]

two best friends of perfectly sound mind

[hlozt]

Two disasters for @tzimizce's Palla Grande prompt (Anya commandeering an entire corner of the venue with their dumbass childe Cyril and a fancy szlachta).

They're angel and/or dragon themed because clan tradition, Cathari doctrine, and as a play on the dragonslayer king-hero trope.

[kingofreddragons]

Cyril the Fire Knight

[otaku553]

Friendly fire art fight attack on @fluffyartbl0g with Lilith and Cyril :)))))

[chaoticspeedrun]

Leo, mein Herz und meine Seele. Mein absoluter Schatz, Meine größte Liebe, mein Liebling, das Licht meines Lebens,mein lieblings Champion

Bitte,

Lass mich dich Pookie nennen😞🙏

Vertrau mir,es ist ein MUSS für die Mission‼️‼️

Now if this doesn’t convince him idk.../lh

Just avoid it in front of Donnie--

[eyes-of-nine]

they're so childhood friends to lovers bodyguard au coded to me 😌✨ (they have killed so so many people)

[random-brushstrokes]

Cyril Power - The Escalator (1930)

[wordycheeseblob]

Knight of Roses 🌹

And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem

But if I know you, I know what you'll do

You'll love me at once

The way you did once upon a dream

My entry for Wish Upon an Aide CC in collaboration with the lovely @lorei-writes

[classicalcanvas]

Title: The Flower Girl

Artist: Jules-Cyrille Cavé

Date: 1897

Genre: Portrait

[sixteenseveredhands]

Doodles Made by a 6-year-old Boy Named Onfim, from Russia, c. 1240-1260 CE: created nearly 800 years ago, these drawings were scrawled onto the homework/spelling exercises of a little boy in Novgorod

Over the last 75 years, excavations in and around Novgorod, in Russia, have led to the discovery of hundreds of documents dating back to the Middle Ages. These documents were made using pieces of bark from the local birch trees; they include letters, notes, spelling exercises, shopping lists, receipts, and legal documents, among other things.

The most famous examples are the panels that contain the writing exercises of a 6-7 year-old boy named Onfim, whose work was often accompanied by drawings of knights, fantastical beasts, battle scenes, and depictions of himself in various forms.

These are just a few examples:

Birch-Bark Document no.199: on the back of a panel that had been used for his spelling exercises, Onfim drew this picture of himself as a wild beast, writing "I am a wild beast" in the center of the drawing; the beast is also shown holding a sign that says "Greetings from Onfim to Danilo," likely referring to a friend or classmate.

Birch-Bark Document no.200: Onfim began writing the Cyrillic alphabet at the top of this panel, but he then stopped to draw a picture of himself as a warrior on horseback, labeling the figure with his name; the drawing shows him wielding a sword while he impales his enemy with a spear.

Birch-Bark Document no.202: the boy's mother and father are depicted in this drawing, which accompanies another writing exercise.

Birch-Bark Document no.206: Onfim began to copy a liturgical prayer (the Troparion of the Sixth Hour) onto this strip of bark, but he apparently got distracted after writing just the first few words, and started drawing a row of people along the bottom of the panel instead.

The examples above are just a few of the many documents that have been unearthed in Novgorod (now known as Veliky Novgorod) and its surrounding areas. More than a thousand birch-bark manuscripts and styli have been found throughout the region, suggesting that there was a high rate of literacy among the local inhabitants. Most of these documents were created during the 11th-15th centuries, when Novgorod served as the capital city of the Novgorod Republic; they had been buried in the thick, wet clay that permeates the local soil, in conditions that allowed them to remain almost perfectly preserved for hundreds of years.

I know that Onfim's drawings are pretty well-known already, but my most recent post involved a very similar writing exercise/doodle from a child in Medieval Egypt, so I just thought I'd post some of Onfim's work, as well.

Sources & More Info:

Institute of Slavic Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences: Birch-Bark no.200, no.199, no.202, no.203, no.206, & no.210 (the site is in Russian, but can be translated)

Institute of Slavic Studies: Full Database of Birch-Bark Documents

The New York Times: Where Mud is Archaeological Gold, Russian History Grew on Trees

Russian Linguistics: Old East Slavic Birch-Bark Literacy - a history of linguistic emancipation?

[mrrwsoup]

funny guys

[jareckiworld]

Cyril Kongo — You're My Roof (mixed media on french linen, 2023

[estellakardia]

My ship once again! :)

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