#historical art
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The nastiest habit of medieval cats seen via illuminated manuscripts.
10. Regular licking
Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290 (Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 320, fol. 72r)
9. Licking and mouse-hunting
Ashmole Bestiary, England 13th century (Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511, fol. 35v)
8. Licking, mouse-hunting and bird-stealing
Bestiary, England 13th century (Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 764, fol. 51r)
7. Hey cat! Stop licking your butt on the Book of Maccabees or you’ll get an arrow!
below the cat: 1Maccabees 16:18-20. Bible, France 13th century (Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 376r)
6. Otter-like cat
Bestiary, England 15th century (København, Kongelige Bibliotek, GkS 1633 4º, fol. 28v)
5. Devil and the cat worshippers licking the cat’s butt
Jean Tinctor, Traittié du crisme de vauderie (Sermo contra sectam vaudensium), Bruges ca. 1470-1480 (Paris, BnF, Français 961, fol. 1r)
4. Prayerbook cats
Hours of Charlotte of Savoy, Paris ca. 1420-1425 (NY, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.1004, fol. 125r, 172r)
3. Weirdly long tongue
Book of Hours, Lyon, ca. 1505-1510 (Lyon, BM, Ms 6881, fol. 30r)
2. Villard’s cat
Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, France ca. 1230 (BnF, Français 19093, fol. 7v)
1. Licking Cat of Apocalypse
Christ on Majesty flanked by two angels blowing trumpets of the Last Judgement and a little grey guy licking its butt. Missal, Bavaria ca. 1440-1460 (New York Public Library, MA 112, fol. 7r)
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Venus by Henry Courtney Selous (1852)
Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” (1484–1486)
A little sketch of Mr Michael Sheen’s Mozart, in the style of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s self portraits. That 90s production of Amadeus seemed very spectacular.
The fleshtone in a lot of Reynolds’s paintings faded severely because of the use of fugitive colours like carmine. But I think the lack of rosy cheeks intensifies the drama sometimes since the warm/cool contrast becomes even more stark…
Man, your work is always mindblowing, and you deserve more notes!
here’s Franz Liszt, joining the composer gang ✨ a friend told me to draw my interpretations of more historical figures so I think I will !!
La Fortuna by Cristofano Allori 1577-1621
“Pity a mother, calmly and patiently listen to her pious prayers, and the higher the Gods have exalted thee, the more gently bear down upon the fallen. What is given to misery is a gift to Fortuna (Fortune) [i.e. the Goddess accepts generosity to the miserable as an offering, which she repays in the hour of need]. So may thy chaste wife’s couch see thee again; so may Laertes [your father] prolong his years till he welcome thee home once more; so may thy son succeed thee.”
-Tragedies of Seneca, Troades 695 ff
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