IlluminationCat

Discover medieval book illumination during my studies of art history and german philology.

[Lady Aviendha @KunstundSterne]

"The Hunters in the Snow" by Dutch artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder is regarded as the first large winter painting in Western painting. It shows a scene with a hunting party returning home, ice skaters and curlingers.
#arthistory #Renaissance #WinterLove

[Lady Aviendha @KunstundSterne]

"Two Squirrels", a watercolor painting by German artist Albrecht Dürer, is perfect for #SquirrelAppreciationDay. The fine brush strokes of the tail are fabulous!
#arthistory #animalstudies

[Medieval Cats @medievalcats]

Upsetty kitty

[Lady Aviendha @KunstundSterne]

French artist Jean-François Millet was born on this day in 1814. He is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Millet is also one of the founders of the Barbizon School in rural France.
#OTD #arthistory #Angelus

[Dr Kathryn M Rudy @katerudy1]

Cat surprised to find itself playing the hammer dulcimer. @medievalcats 's-Heerenberg Huis Berg ms 16

[Lady Aviendha @KunstundSterne]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on this day in 1749. Julius von Klever illustrates his famous poem "Der Erlkönig" in his painting, which depicts the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the Erlking.
#arthistory #OTD #Goethe #HappyBirthday

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

Medieval puppy love for #InternationalDogDay 🐶

Royal MS 14 E iii, f. 146r; Royal 20 A II f. 8v; Add MS 24686, f. 13v; Add MS 38126, f. 5r.

[Johan Oosterman @JohanOosterman]

Giraffe.
Travels of Sir John Mandeville. Upper Rhine, 2nd quarter 15th cent.
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. XVI

[Lady Aviendha @KunstundSterne]

"I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be – in a light better than any light that ever shone – in a land no one can define or remember, only desire", said Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones, who died on this day in 1898.
#art #OTD

[Kathia @Kathialmeer]

Einfach immer wieder erfreulich: Die Galgenlieder von Christian Morgenstern. ☺️
#HappyBirthday #OTD #Werwolf

[Lady Aviendha @KunstundSterne]

The British artist Louis Wain was a highly successful illustrator whose reputation was made on his singular and gently humorous pictures of cats. He was a cat-lover himself and sometime President of The National Cat Club.
#arthistory #Caturday

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Diana Keys, aged 70, who has spent the last 40 years painting her own version of the Sistine Chapel in her council flat, Hemel Hempstead, UK #womensart

[Damien Kempf @DamienKempf]

Back from the grocery store with my toilet rolls

[Lady Aviendha @KunstundSterne]

Raphaël Vavasseur is a French artist, who lives in the countryside of Normandy together with his three cats Kitcha, Doodoo and Cocotte - the main source of inspiration for his art.
#arthistory #Caturday #staysafe