#chess piece

[fu-hime-joshi]

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Chess pieces.

Culture: South German (?)

Date: 16th Century (?)

Medium: Wood, oil, silver and gold paint

[medieval-elephants]

Medieval chess, or medieval Kinder Surprise?

As mentioned in the previous post, chess originated in India and early chess boards often included a bishop. When the game was popularized in northern Europe, the original pieces continued to be used, although they lost their meaning or were reinterpreted over time. The elephant's tusks eventually became two bumps. Eventually, elephant, chariot, and vizier pieces were given names of officials at northern courts: bishops, knights, and queens. These transitions and designs happened in different ways in different places.

An interesting piece that showing one moment of transition, acquired by Musée de Cluny in 2011, has the abstract elephant shapes with bumps on the outside-- plus a surprise bishop holding a crozier and a book on the inside!

Material: Ivory Date: 12th century? Origin: Cologne? England? Now Paris, Musée de Cluny Cl. 23885

You can play with a 3D version at https://www.musee-moyenage.fr/collection/collections-3D/piece-d-echec-eveque-en-3d.html

[artifacts-archive]

Chess Piece, Knight

Islamic

8th–10th century

Caliphal decrees prohibited the playing of chess (the pieces of which are customarily figural) for iconoclastic reasons as early as the eighth century. It is likely that chess pieces of the abstract type, such as those exhibited here, replaced the figural ones in order to circumvent those decrees.

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[gracelyngrausamkeit]

This single pawn, ready for attack, is my gf’s favorite illustration of the chess series. My goal was to exaggerate realistic armor forms while still maintaining its overall pawn-ish shape. Tonlets, as it turned out, were the perfect piece of armor for this. Also, I gave it a polearm, because of course I did. No swords allowed!

[artbyifer]

Black Queen WIP

From the 2022 Sahcon aggie.io

[iamafanofcartoons]

Can I offer Tumblr some RWBY meme templates in these trying times?

[magician-hero]

pawn chess girl.

[missuntitledblog]

Trying to get a good shot of Shadowheart

[art-beyond-the-stars]

More of the Minimalism Kingdom!!

Here we finally get a look at the "regular" Pawns! They're blank and featureless, as if they were nothing more than animated dolls.

Null only gets her jester outfit because she's close to the royals, and they want it to be known that their servants are the pinnacle of magnificence.

[Piece by Piece is by @sm-baby !!]

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[thefoilguy]

Chess Pieces - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

[sharkyswaters]

[medieval-elephants]

The elephant's gambit

The layout of the chessboard that Europeans know today-- with rooks, knights, bishops, queens, and kings-- was not the original line-up. The game of chess is reputed to have orginated in India, and spread via the Middle East to Europe. According to the Persian poet Ferdowsi, early chess sets involved a king, vizier, elephants, calvary, chariots, and infantry. (See the Met's Spring 1975 Bulletin).

Today this 7th- or 8th-century chess piece is held at the Met Museum, where it is still categorized as... a bishop.

Stay tuned tomorrow for how the elephant became a bishop! Medium: Ivory Date: 7th–8th century Origin: Western Islamic lands? Now Met Museum, 64.262.1

[artifacts-archive]

Bishop Chess Piece

Scandinavian

1150–1200

The Bishop was introduced to the European chessboard in the 12th century, replacing the elephant of Islamic tradition. The substitution of a man of the church for an animal used in battle may seem curious, but medieval bishops frequently served with armies. That role is not on display here: the smaller figures probably represent men who served the Bishop in ceremony. An official known as a Reader holds the Bishop’s book. He has been tonsured—his hair shaven in a circle at the crown of his head. The man holding a staff and cradling his ear may be the Precentor, who was in charge of the choir.

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[gracelyngrausamkeit]

Did you know that the rook in chess was actually first depicted as a chariot? But at some point (at least according to the people I worked with for this project) the Persians decided to name the figure "Rook" after a mythological bird "rukh". I really had fun drawing this chonk of a bird.

[lovelyllamasblog]

Chase Redford ⚔

Adopted son of the Red Queen

The Red Knight

Birthday: August 14*

Star Sign: Leo ♌

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and What She Found There

Through the Looking Glass

*debut in Way Too Wonderland