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.
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[Self-portraits of Caterina van Hemessen, Sofonisba Anguissola, Mary Beale, and Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, text “Never apologize for selfies”]
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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 -
![compendium-of-beasts:
Garden of Earthly Delights [detail], between 1480 and 1505, Hieronymus Bosch](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdwmlqONUW1ryl089o1_500.jpg "compendium-of-beasts:
Garden of Earthly Delights [detail], between 1480 and 1505, Hieronymus Bosch")
Garden of Earthly Delights [detail], between 1480 and 1505, Hieronymus Bosch
(Source: genitalinternational)
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Betrothal portrait of Ladislaus the Posthumous and Magdalena of Valois by anon., Vienna, btw 1460 and 1480, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary
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I was going to post some Romantic-era storm paintings as my Obligatory Hurricane Sandy Post, but I was getting seasick looking at all those Aivazovskys.
So instead have a hastily-thrown-together photoset of mythological Greeks gettin’ it on with weather gods!
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Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 1654, detail of f. 171r. Pierre Michault, Le Doctrinal rural and La danse aux aveugles. 1466
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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.
