kunstwissenschaftlerin:

vory Virgin and Child from the Ste.-Chapelle treasury in Paris.  First listed in the 1279 inventory, today part of the Louvre’s collection.  This is one of the most important (and lovely!) examples of ivory Virgin and Child figurines which were popular in Gothic France and Germany.  The Virgin’s headdress and elegant garments are meant to appeal to an élite courtly audience who could afford such luxuries.  But the tender interaction and sweet faces of the Virgin and Child were also meant to inspire meditative empathy with the holy figures.

Photograph ©R.M.N./M. Beck-Coppola via the Louvre.fr, where you can read more about the sculpture here.

kunstwissenschaftlerin:

ogier van der Weyden, The Magdalene Reading, c. 1445, oil on panel, in the National Gallery, London. 

I decided it was time for a change in my Tumblr thumbnail photo.  So, I’ve switched out my beloved Albrecht Dürer monogram for this image of the reading Mary Magdalene.  I am partial to pictures of reading women, and this is probably the most exquisite of that sub-genre.  Also, I saw this painting last year at the Rogier van der Weyden/Master of Flémalle exhibition at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, so it comes attached with some lovely memories.

kunstwissenschaftlerin:

ieter Bruegel the Elder, Fall of the Rebel Angels, oil on panel, 1562, in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.  Bruegel’s peasant pictures are so popular (and rightfully so!) that his religious images are often overlooked.  In this painting, the legacy of Bosch is present in the fantastical beasts representing the rebel angels.

kunstwissenschaftlerin:

I saw this sculpture at a Georg Petel exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich. It’s huge! I love unabashedly luxuriant sculpture such as this.

aureliomadrid:

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

from edgarhohl

whitestill:

Portrait of Walajah, son of A’zam Shah, Mughal, India
(1707)

whitestill:

Icon with J H S, Andreas Ritzos

15th c.

whitestill:

Hans von Gersdorff. Feldtbüch der Wundartzney.

Strassburg: Durch Joannem Schott, [1517]

whitestill:

The musical robot band,  al-Jazari.

yama-bato:

God in Glory at the Last Judgment
Troyes Master

Hours, for Troyes use France, Troyes, c. 1390 and 1450 (Private Collection, f. 131).

This early Book of Hours includes high quality illumination by the individualistic Troyes Master, an artist who produced many manuscripts for patrons located in the area of Champagne, including a Missal for the Church of Evry-le-Chatel near Troyes.

http://www.medievalbooksofhours.com/advancedtutorial/tutorial_advanced_onlinetutorial_images_texts.html#suffrage

nl-paint-be:

Pieter Breugel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow (1565) Dec-Jan

Oil on oak panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna