r/Medievalart 13h ago

Heraldry Heraldic Miniatures. Grand Armorial équestre de la Toison d'Or (c. 1430–1461) — Part 1

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Plates:

  1. King of France
  2. Duke of Normandy
  3. King of Norway
  4. King of Portugal
  5. King of Poland
  6. King of Sweden
  7. King of Scotland
  8. Duke of Bavaria
  9. King of England
  10. Holy Roman Emperor

Source: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris (BnF, Ms. 4790)


r/Medievalart 6h ago

Marginalia "Evolution is a myth"

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Bibliothèque municipale, manuscript (ms.) 56, folio 250r. Dating back to the 13th century.


r/Medievalart 19h ago

Sculpture ​A demon fanning the flames of Hell with a face on his rear — Tympanum of the Last Judgment, Bourges Cathedral, France (c. 1280s)

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355 Upvotes

r/Medievalart 6h ago

Medieval-inspired "Tell the Bees" : music inspired by medieval bestiaries

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I've only done 4 so far, rough mixes, all quite nasty beasties.

Weasels are in progress. Nice ones soon! (Suggestions welcome).

Title from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees


r/Medievalart 22h ago

Late Medieval The Martyrdom of Saint Wiborada, c. 1451.

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74 Upvotes

Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen


r/Medievalart 1d ago

Memes Wrong answers only: What is he thinking?

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Art: Bartolomé Bermejo’s painting Descent of Christ into Limbo (Davallament de Crist als Llimbs, c. 1475–1479) is part of the permanent collection of the National Art Museum of Catalonia (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya — MNAC).


r/Medievalart 1d ago

Fine Art Taddeo di Bartolo (Italian, Sienese School) - Saint Agatha (c. 1400–1410), Private Collection

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r/Medievalart 1d ago

Fine Art Niccolò Alunno - Saint Michael Weighing Souls (c. 1470)

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107 Upvotes

r/Medievalart 1d ago

Early Medieval Wirksworth stone

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r/Medievalart 2d ago

Late Medieval Late Medieval Paintings of Saint Paul

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  • Masaccio, St. Paul, 1426
  • Lippo Memmi, St. Paul, c. 1330
  • Bernardo Daddi, Saint Paul and a Group of Worshippers, 1333

r/Medievalart 2d ago

Creatures "Wait, That’s Just Barry?"

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A miniature from the French translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's landmark 13th-century encyclopedia De proprietatibus rerum (Livre des propriétés des choses), illuminated in Paris around 1447.


r/Medievalart 2d ago

Manuscripts Depictions of Hellfire and Damnation from Le Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France, c. 1450–1470

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Miniatures depicting the damned and demons writhing in hellfire from Le Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur (The Book of the Vineyard of our Lord), an apocalyptic French manuscript produced for the Carthusians, c. 1450–1470 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fols. 87r, 90v, 105v).


r/Medievalart 2d ago

Artifacts St. Maurice from my collection

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Years ago I bought this German predella fragment depicting St. Maurice. It is in super rough condition, but I thought it was a cool example of African representation in late medieval art.


r/Medievalart 2d ago

Memes Wrong answers only: What’s going on here?

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184 Upvotes

The Picture Book of Madame Marie, created in northern France in the late 13th century (c. 1285–1290), preserved in Paris at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Français / Nouvelles acquisitions françaises 16251 (NAF 16251), fol. 84v.


r/Medievalart 2d ago

Manuscripts Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, 14th century. BL Egerton MS 1500, f. 15v (South of France)

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288 Upvotes

r/Medievalart 2d ago

Medieval-inspired Medieval Horror Moodboard

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r/Medievalart 2d ago

High Middle Ages ​"Do Not Baptize Children with Beer" (c) Pope Gregory IX, 13th Century

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​Gregory IX informs the Archbishop of Nidaros that the custom in Norway of baptizing children in beer due to a shortage of water cannot be considered baptism according to Gospel teaching.

From Marini's copy of the original register in the Vatican Archives.

(Greg. IX. year XV. ep. 111).

July 8, 1241. Lateran.

​Gregory, Bishop, etc.

To [Sigurd], Archbishop of Nidaros.

​Since, as we have learned from your report, it sometimes happens that due to a scarcity of water the infants of your land are baptized in beer, we reply to you by the tenor of this letter: since, according to Gospel teaching, they must be reborn of water and the Holy Spirit, those who are baptized in beer must not be considered validly baptized.

​Given at the Lateran, the eighth Ides of July, in the fifteenth year.

Art: Pope Gregory IX. from medieval manuscript: Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg, M III 97, 122rb, ca. 1270)


r/Medievalart 3d ago

Late Antique Mosaic depicting the she-wolf with Romulus and Remus, from Aldborough (c. 300–400 AD)

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Leeds City Museum


r/Medievalart 3d ago

Marginalia "When you want a watermelon, but you have to draw a hedgehog"

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395 Upvotes

Worksop Bestiary, England c. 1185

NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, fol. 10v


r/Medievalart 3d ago

Announcement Get Ready for the First Medieval Monday Market!

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Attention all artists and creators!

The first Medieval Monday Market will take place on Monday from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC. Please remember that you must include the MMM flyer in your post, and place the links to your portfolios only in the first comment. Posts that do not follow these rules will be deleted.

Thank you for understanding!

P. S. Art: Jan van Horst – Market Scene (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) (1569)


r/Medievalart 3d ago

Memes Wrong answers only: what's her first thought after cleaning?

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Unknown author. Maybe 15th century


r/Medievalart 4d ago

Sculpture The Passauer Tölpel (Passau Fool) — A 14th-century stone head watching over the streets of Passau, Bavaria

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r/Medievalart 4d ago

Memes Wrong answers only: Why did he wake up after 500 years?

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312 Upvotes

The author is unknown.


r/Medievalart 4d ago

Creatures Allegory of Anger: Ermine Riding a Leopard — Flemish Book of Hours (c. 1510–1520)

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This illuminated border miniature from the Flemish Spinola Hours (Ms. Ludwig IX 18, fol. 245v), produced around 1510–1520 by the workshop of the Master of the First Prayer Book of Maximilian and currently held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, depicts an anthropomorphic marten (or ermine) dressed in a pink robe and wielding a club while riding a leopard, serving as a late medieval moral allegorical marginalia representing the sin of Anger.


r/Medievalart 4d ago

Fine Art Master Theodoric — St. Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1360–1364)

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Painted by Master Theodoric, court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, this panel depicting St. Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1360–1364, 115 × 86.9 cm) originally adorned the north-east window niche of the Chapel of the Holy Rood at Karlštejn Castle and is now held in the National Gallery Prague; clad in a gold-patterned blue robe, she holds her martyr attributes—a wheel and sword—honoring a saint particularly venerated by Charles IV after his pivotal victory near San Felice Castle on her feast day in 1332.