#medieval paintings

[strawberryvulture]

God Speed by Edmund Blair Leighton (1900)

[erinsintra]

modern anime are like medieval european art. too weird compared to what came before. bunch of christian symbolism outta nowhere. random ass titles. no one knows how to properly draw animals. lots of naked ladies

[sighed-the-snake]

This is Aziraphale and no one, absolutely no one, can convince me otherwise.

"Portrait of a Woman in a White Coif," Hans Holbein the Younger, lived 1497 to 1543.

[little-desi-historian]

A miniature from the Spassky Gospels, Yaroslavl, made in the 1220s.

(Kievan-Rus. Modern day Kyiv, Ukraine).

Credit to @medievalfantasyqueen for finding this and the citation.

[mariavalerieva]

Why did Bosch depict owls in his paintings?

For many of us, an owl is a symbol of wisdom. In Christian paintings however, the image of an owl had a completely different meaning.

Hieronymus Bosch (medieval painter, one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school) portrayed an owl in many of his paintings, sometimes bringing it in contexts to those who behaved insidiously or indulged in mortal sin.

The owl serves evil as a night bird and a predator, and symbolizes stupidity, spiritual blindness and the ruthlessness of everything earthly.

Some of the paintings depict hunting with owls, which was one of the medieval pastimes. The owl was both a bait and a hunter, which resembled the tricks of the devil.

An owl has the ability to see in the dark, as if able to see the truth in the dark side of being.

[skipp3r]

What in satan’s soul is this

[mcmessner]

Angel Wing and Pomegranate

Angel Wing and Pomegranate – Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1103

first posted in facebook august 22, 2022

andré bauchant -- "untitled [the gardener]" (1922)

"i sleep in late another day oh what a wonder oh what a waste it's a monday it's so mundane what exciting things will happen today? the yard is full of hard rubbish it's a mess and i guess the neighbors must think we run a meth lab we should amend that i pull the sheets back it's 40 degrees and i feel like I'm dying life's getting hard in here so i do some gardening" ... courtney barnett

"bauchant's treatment of figures, frozen in attitudes indicating a certain awkwardness and as if enshrined in foliage, manifest a poetic and mysterious quality sometimes reminiscent of medieval paintings" ... nadine pouillon

"as i walked out in the mystic garden on a hot summer day, hot summer lawn excuse me, ma’am, i beg your pardon there’s no one here, the gardener is gone" ... bob dylan

"bauchant's treatment of this figure, frozen in foliage, manifests a mysterious familiarity reminiscent of my friend Daniel Morgan" ... al janik

[roach-works]

the 50$ sword i got from a shady flea market was diagnosed to be a wall-hanger rather than a prop so i spent today making it the prettiest wall-hanger in the land

[vangoghcore]

by gettymuseum

[duskerkeit]

a homage to Sappho - Norman Lindsay c.1928

[hoppity-floppity]

Hot take

Medieval wall paintings are comic strips.

[olliemnjones]

Saul Realised I never shared this here, painting I did for a discord challenge, task was to reinterpret a piece of Medieval marginalia.

[lionofchaeronea]

Hellelil and Hildebrand (The Meeting on the Turret Stairs), Frederic William Burton, 1864

[whimsifae]

“ in the end, we’ll all become stories, ”

[vyrosk]

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