Medieval History
- Medieval Scholar Hot On Trail Of Starbucks Logo Cover-up
If you want the corporate take on why Starbucks recently deleted the green ring from its logo?and, in fact, the word Starbucks?you can listen to Howard Schultz, the company?s CEO, soberly explain, in a promotional video, why the ?essence of the Starbucks...
- Medieval Medical Treatises
My five-year-old burned her leg on my curling iron today. I only asked her five times to give me some space in the bathroom BEFORE she knocked the curling iron onto her leg, but whatevs. After I cleaned her up and she was properly bandaged, she was impressed...
- In Honor Of Francis
In honor of the 266th pontiff of the Catholic church, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, or Francis I. Antiphonal (fragments). Folio #: fol. 009r. 14th century, middle to late, Italian. Fragments (12 leaves) from three(?) Franciscan(?) antiphonals. Pisa, mid and...
- 'monokeros,' Or Unicorns In Imagery And Myth
Celestial Globe, detail: Unicorn, Joseph-Jérôme Lalande, 1775. Private Collection, Vienna, Austria Italian dish, possibly made in Pesaro in 1486-87. Maiolica (tin-enameled earthenware), Metropolitan Museum of Art. The maiden has lured the unicorn...
- Not A Saint - But A Sinner!
Two bright and acute thinkers put forth that the woman in the last post is not a saint - but one of the Bible's most infamous sinners: Bathsheba. But our Bathsheba would be a most demure temptress, fully clothed as she is. She must have had...
Medieval History
Mermaids
Roman book of hours, whole page, folio 186r. End of fifteenth century, made in Venice or Padua. Historiated initial (D)omine with the Holy Spirit above. Floral border with mermaid and dolphin.
Pendant of a mermaid, German. 1580-1590, enameled gold, pearls, diamonds and rubies. 4.25 x 2.25 inches. Museo degli argenti, Florence, Italy.
Psalter, folio 102r. Peter Lombard, edited by Herbert of Bosham. Illustration of mermaid and child.
Parisian Book of Hours, folio 051r. Attributed to the Master of Brussels, an Italian artist active in France.
Ashmole Bestiary, folio 065v. Early thirteenth century, made in Peterborough. Detail, 'Syrene' (the mermaid), holding in her raised hands a mirror and a fish.
Book of Hours, Tournai. Folio 056a recto. 1480-1500. Dutch school.
- Medieval Scholar Hot On Trail Of Starbucks Logo Cover-up
If you want the corporate take on why Starbucks recently deleted the green ring from its logo?and, in fact, the word Starbucks?you can listen to Howard Schultz, the company?s CEO, soberly explain, in a promotional video, why the ?essence of the Starbucks...
- Medieval Medical Treatises
My five-year-old burned her leg on my curling iron today. I only asked her five times to give me some space in the bathroom BEFORE she knocked the curling iron onto her leg, but whatevs. After I cleaned her up and she was properly bandaged, she was impressed...
- In Honor Of Francis
In honor of the 266th pontiff of the Catholic church, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, or Francis I. Antiphonal (fragments). Folio #: fol. 009r. 14th century, middle to late, Italian. Fragments (12 leaves) from three(?) Franciscan(?) antiphonals. Pisa, mid and...
- 'monokeros,' Or Unicorns In Imagery And Myth
Celestial Globe, detail: Unicorn, Joseph-Jérôme Lalande, 1775. Private Collection, Vienna, Austria Italian dish, possibly made in Pesaro in 1486-87. Maiolica (tin-enameled earthenware), Metropolitan Museum of Art. The maiden has lured the unicorn...
- Not A Saint - But A Sinner!
Two bright and acute thinkers put forth that the woman in the last post is not a saint - but one of the Bible's most infamous sinners: Bathsheba. But our Bathsheba would be a most demure temptress, fully clothed as she is. She must have had...