1. demonagerie: Autun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 0269, f. 170v. Book of Hours, use of Autun (Heures de Philibert Pillot). Autun, c.1480-1490. St Catherine of Siena.

    demonagerie:

    Autun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 0269, f. 170v. Book of Hours, use of Autun (Heures de Philibert Pillot). Autun, c.1480-1490. St Catherine of Siena.

  2. centuriespast: UNKNOWN MASTER, GermanArs Moriendi (The Art of Dying)c. 1470Woodcut, 219 x 162 mmNational Gallery of Art, Washington

    centuriespast:

    UNKNOWN MASTER, German
    Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying)
    c. 1470
    Woodcut, 219 x 162 mm
    National Gallery of Art, Washington

  3. masterpiecedaily: Marianne Stokes Madonna and Child 1907-08

    masterpiecedaily:

    Marianne Stokes

    Madonna and Child

    1907-08

  4. masterpiecedaily: Meister Francke Birth of Jesus 1424

    masterpiecedaily:

    Meister Francke

    Birth of Jesus

    1424

  5. xixdegrees: J. C. Leyendecker, The Magi

    xixdegrees:

    J. C. Leyendecker, The Magi

  6. centuriespast: CHRISTUS, Petrus (b. 1410/20, Baarle, d. 1475/76, Brugge) The Virgin of the Dry Treec. 1460Oil on panel, 17 x 12 cmMuseo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

    centuriespast:

    CHRISTUS, Petrus

    (b. 1410/20, Baarle, d. 1475/76, Brugge)

    The Virgin of the Dry Tree
    c. 1460
    Oil on panel, 17 x 12 cm
    Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

  7. tonguedepressors: mirabile—-visu: ‘Madonna Ouvrante’ with Holy Trinity Inside, French c. 1400

    tonguedepressors:

    mirabile—-visu:

    ‘Madonna Ouvrante’ with Holy Trinity Inside, French c. 1400

  8. hominisaevum:

    This picture of the ‘The Virgin and Child’ is the central panel from The Demidoff Altarpiece made for the high altar of San Domenico in Ascoli Piceno, east central Italy.

    In this altarpiece, Crivelli has used three-dimensional elements: glass, beads, carved and gilded wood and even gilded rope. In the flickering candle-light of a church, the effect of these would have been more powerful than in the well-lit gallery. 

    Crivelli’s work is distinctive for the detail of his settings. The Virgin is seated on a marble step and surrounded by festoons of fruit and a tooled gilded background. 

  9. artbluff: Tomás Yepes Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados, 1644, Patrimonio Nacional, Real Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, Madrid

    artbluff:

    Tomás Yepes
    Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados, 1644, Patrimonio Nacional, Real Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, Madrid

  10. signorcasaubon: Vision of the Angelic Hierarchy, based on the writings of St. Hildegrad von Bingen; 12th century.

    signorcasaubon:

    Vision of the Angelic Hierarchy, based on the writings of St. Hildegrad von Bingen; 12th century.

  11. dovesforfeet: Gonzalo Perez Saint Michael Vanquishing the Devil Early 15th Century

    dovesforfeet:

    Gonzalo Perez

    Saint Michael Vanquishing the Devil

    Early 15th Century

  12. resurrezione: Carlo Crivelli - “La Madonna della rondine”

    resurrezione:

    Carlo Crivelli - “La Madonna della rondine”

  13. mediumaevum:

    Saint Thomas Aquinas- Carlo Crivelli

    Crivelli is the most awesome painter of saints, the end.

  14. Mother Goddesses

    1. Coatlicue (Mexico, from the collection of El Museo Nacional de Antropologia)

    2. Isis (Ptolemaic period Egyptian sculpture)

    3. Durga (14th-15th century Tibetan sculpture)

    4. Cybele (2nd century Roman sculpture)

    5. Xi Wangmu (Mori Tesuzan, 1804.)

    6. Mary (Black Madonna of Częstochowa)

  15. aureliomadrid: Kath. Pfarrkirche St. Moritz Augsburg Georg Petel (1601–1635) Hl. Sebastian from edgarhohl I like this because instead of looking serenely at heaven like he does in many depictions, Sebastian is looking down like, “Oh dang, I am full of arrows.”

    aureliomadrid:

    Kath. Pfarrkirche St. Moritz Augsburg Georg Petel (1601–1635) Hl. Sebastian from edgarhohl

    I like this because instead of looking serenely at heaven like he does in many depictions, Sebastian is looking down like, “Oh dang, I am full of arrows.”