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daslandihrergeburt:Giotto di Bondone, The Mourning of Christ (detail), c. 1305.

Goose, doing a pretty excellent imitation of a flamingo. Geese are great! You compliment them on the

LJS 27 is great for miniatures that attempt to portray extremely elaborate narratives at a single go

Ms. Codex 55 - Statuta communitatis Viglani edita per homines et communitatem dicti loci Viglani, di

For those of you who felt that you were sleeping too well at night, here is an initial G in the form

LJS 285 - Decreto di banco feneratitioThis is a charter issued by the cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and th

Some intricate decorative details from fol. 7r of LJS 265, a 15C Italian work on agriculture.Manuscr

If those folks on fol. 4v of LJS 62 are Dioscorides and Galen, then these folks on fol. 1v are also

Ms. Codex 622 -L'arbre des bataillesThis manuscript features a treatise on war in four parts, writte

How about one more illuminated initial for the road? I love that you can really get a sense of the p

I very much enjoy this coat of arms because it looks like an Animorphs time-lapse of the raven at th

Ms. Codex 326 -Encyclopaedia historica et filosophica, latine et italiceThis manuscript features a h

Shaffron of Henry II of France when Dauphin, ca. 1495, Italian.Shaffron is that piece of armor that

GPOY.Or why there’s nothing, NOTHING better than Renaissance art. 

Six-foot mandrake, fine roots all over, beatific Botticelli face.Manuscript description and digital

Ms. Codex 712 -[Sermons] This manuscript features a collection of sermons and other works of St. Joh

At first I thought this might be depicting fennel, because Pliny the Elder wrote about snakes needin

The foliate borders of LJS 41 – a 15C Italian production of the Book of Esther in Hebrew &ndas

speciesbarocus:Aelbrecht Bouts - Lamentation of Christ. Detail.

In all likelihood, what happened here on fol. 77r of LJS 419 was that someone looked at this illustr

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sartorialadventure:sartorialadventure:Renaissance hair styles by the Bayerische Theaterakademie(clic

hellenismo:Sphinx in the Farnese Gardens (known as “Orti Farnesiani sul Palatino” or “Gardens of Far

goodreadss:Michelangelo, Creation of Adam

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