An inspiration & reference blog belonging to Fox-Teeth (Erin), a cartoonist living in NYC. For collecting materials related to current & future comics & art projects, generally inspiring or useful things, and just neat stuff. Icon image source: a Book of Hours c. 1460 held by Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum Background image source: The Pepin Press Mobile header image thing source: New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Oji, No. 118 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo By Utagawa Hiroshige, image from the Brooklyn Museum
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Wolf of Ansbach, 17th century
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Sutton Hoo Warriors fought in the Byzantine Army, historian argues
The renowned Sutton Hoo burial site is famed for its opulent grave goods, but their origins remain a mystery. A newly published study in The English Historical Review presents a groundbreaking theory, offering “a startlingly new view of early Anglo-Saxon history.”
#read the original paper and was very riveted#sutton hoo#anglo saxon#england#grave goods#byzantine#ancient rome#medieval europe#early medieval#death#graves#cultural exchange#syncretism
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Skeleton dance costume, late 19th or early 20th century. Tibet. Silk, flannel; 70 x 60 in. (177.8 x 152.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Edward A. Nis, 1934 (34.80.3a–h)
Stag mask, late 19th–early 20th century. Tibet. Papier-mâché, polychrome, gilding, leather, and silk; 14 × 15 1/4 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Edward Nis, 1934 (34.80.3i)
Image source: Installing Sacred Traditions of the Himalayas: A Behind-the-Scenes Look
#tibet#himalayas#costumes#buddhism#stag#deer#tiger#skeletons#costume#finally my beloved wrathful stag mask was back on view
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A young boy in a Kuker costume, these costumes are part of a tradition that some historians link to Thracian times. Their "scary" visage and bells are used to scare away evil spirits.
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Every day I learn something baffling about Massachusetts
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Artist: cherin_mayuka on Instagram
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Holiday decorations at The Met Cloisters
"Monumental arches have been hung at the exterior doorway and the entrances to the galleries, while garlands and wreaths decorate other spaces. Our decorations are unique and made from fresh materials by our gardens staff, volunteers, and colleagues from other offices. The designs and materials are drawn from evidence found in medieval carols, wassails, artworks, and customs since little pictorial evidence has survived. Many of the plants and traditions are familiar to us: evergreens, apples, and nuts, for example, still appear in modern holiday decorations and at winter feasts. Evergreens, including holly and ivy, feature prominently since they have long traditions as powerful and symbolic plants in winter celebrations in many cultures. The great English holly arch at the main entrance references the ancient custom of adorning doorways with beneficial plants to protect those who pass beneath them. Holly has traditionally been credited with the ability to protect against witchcraft, lightning, and poison. Its spiky leaves and red berries alluded to the Passion and blood of Christ, while ivy was identified with the Virgin Mary. Medieval carols describe contests between holly and ivy, where the plants represent light and darkness. When holly wins the contest, it is carried into the hall, representing the triumph of light over the darkness of winter. Apples and nuts were important foodstuffs stored for winter consumption just as they are now. They appear in the Main Hall arches as well as in smaller decorations. A sheaf of wheat stands beside an altar in the Langon Chapel, alluding to the many Nativity scenes that portray the infant Jesus resting on wheat, prefiguring the bread used in the Mass."
Text/Video/Photo via The Met's Instagram and website.
#medieval europe#medieval#the cloisters#holidays#christmas#winter#plants#architecture#apples#evergreens#Instagram
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The Bonnefont Cloister Herb Garden in the snow.
Photos taken by the blog owner at The Met Cloisters December 2024.
#medieval europe#medieval#gardens#architecture#plants#met cloisters#snow#winter#wish we could’ve gone in but the gardens were pretty from a distance#YES I went up to fort tryon for this view especially
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Display of medieval pigments/dyes in gallery 10 of The Met Cloisters.
Photos taken by the blog owner in December 2024.
#medieval europe#medieval#the cloisters#pigment#historical pigments#historical dyes#clothing#historical clothing#museums#colors#plants#you know I went feral for this display
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Arch with Beasts, French, c. 1150-75. On view at The Met Cloisters.
I really like how close these carvings look to contemporary bestiary illustrations--it's obvious there was a lot of cross-pollination between these artists.
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I wonder why the women have animal heads--a motif found in other Jewish illuminated manuscripts, theorized to be a way to prevent creating "graven images"--but the men don't?
Mahzor (festival prayer book) for Shavuot and Sukkot, Origin: Germany, S. (area of Lake Constance); ca. 1322.
Detail of a page; historiated initial-word panel of the Receiving the Law with Moses streching his hands for the tablets and Aaron and the Israelites waiting at the foot of the mountain, at the beginning of a liturgical poem for the first day of Shavuot (Davidson vol. 1, no. 484).
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Psalter, Upper Rhine ca. 1260
Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale ms. 54, fol. 60v
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The Girl from Molzbach.
The remains and artifacts of a young woman (approximately 20 years olds) from the Bronze Age from Hesse.
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Vessel in the Form of a Deer Impersonator, Moche culture, 100 B.C./A.D. 500, Chimbote, Santa Province, Peru Art Institute of Chicago
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