Medieval graffiti: John Lydgate and Jan van Eyck Above: graffiti recently discovered in a church in
Medieval graffiti: John Lydgate and Jan van EyckAbove: graffiti recently discovered in a church in the small village of Lidgate, in Suffolk (UK). The graffiti is in Latin and reads ‘John Lydgate - made on this day of St Simon and St Jude’. The author of the graffito can almost certainly be identified as the famous fifteenth-century English poet John Lydgate (ca. 1370-1451). The inscription has been discovered in the context of the fascinating Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey.Below: a detail from Jan van Eyck’s famous portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife (1434). It was probably painted at about the same time as when Lydgate scratched his name and the date into the wall of his church. -- source link
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