#12th Century

[baudouinette]

Medieval Baldwin & Lluna! ✨🌙

I did not know what to put as a text LMAO so feel free to suggest something poetic

[divorcedwife]

i look at early 12th century fashion and im like wow emelin is there

[upennmanuscripts]

On April 17, PhD Candidate in Political Science and SIMS Graduate Student Fellow Abdulaziz Alotaibi will bring out LJS 459, an early copy of the long form of a popular treatise presented as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great. Topics covered include statecraft, astronomy, astrology, magic, and medicine. It was written in Iraq between 1193 and 1211.

Coffee With A Codex is an informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Register here:

[dimingwins]

Book - The Knight and the Blast Furnace

[blanchebees]

Late 12th century knight

Tip jar

[angevinyaoiz]

Matilda, Eleanor, and Joanna - retrospring request for the Angevin daughters

[cuties-in-codices]

medieval parchment repairs

in a psalter, south-western germany, late 12th/early 13th c.

source: Hermetschwil, Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 37, fol. 19r, 53r, and 110r

[heavensdoorways]

Monastery of Saint Mary of Iranzu, Navarre, Spain,

It was founded in the late 12th century. The cloister is partly Cistercian (12th century) and partly Gothic (13-14th centuries).

[livesunique]

Castello Montalto Dora, Piedmont, Italy

Picture by Antonio Forte

[baudouinette]

Baudouin IV et Lunette ⚜️ Le Mariage Royal (page 1)

My biggest digital artwork yet

I did not spend like 3 months on this (I did). There are still two pages left, where Baldwin makes a cute little gesture to ease Lluna’s tension 🥹

Baldwin wears an eastern gem tablion like in his seal, and a crown that I made up, but also inspired by eastern crowns, and mixed with the Fleurs de Lis. His mask here is ceremonial, and has a golden nose guard, because a military look is common in noble and royal weddings (hence the sword at the hip too). Lluna’s wedding gown tail is made of peacock feathers 🦚💙💚 and her face has Amazigh henna tattoos.

And flower crowns because they were sometimes tradition in medieval Christian weddings and I just think it’s too cute and Lana del Rey coded lol

William is the one to marry them, and crown her, not Heraclius (as seen in the latest chapter I published). Wanted William to have an upper hand over Heraclius, and besides, he deserved to be the one to officiate Baldwin’s wedding, being like a father to him 🥲

I had them kneeling down for the nuptial mass, as is customary too, but wanted to include the “knot” over their hands in the scene too. The church doesn’t look like the Holy Sepulcher, bc I used my imagination. I also made part of it resemble the arches and frames in medieval art

I know it’s way too overloaded… too many things going on heh

Without the texture, and the very base sketch (I’m bad at sketching, and Lluna’s face was all wrong, so I had to correct it when painting over)

(Commissions open! 1/3) inquire on DM

[jeannepompadour]

"Glorification of the Virgin" mosaic in Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome; Glorification of the Virgin. c. 1130-43

[tomato-bird-art]

“What shall we hang? The holly or each other?”

Made a last minute print inspired by my favorite Toxic Christmas Movie, The Lion in Winter (1968). I always love doing a detailed piece like this! I’ll be selling prints at EBABZ tomorrow, but feel free to pick up a copy on my storenvy as well <3

[historyja]

CLITO!

[cy-lindric]

Do you know if you will sell that drawing of the three kings asleep in the same bed with the angel waking them? It was posted on christmas of last year. I would absolutely adore to have it as a christmas card to send to my friends & family :) much love ! Adore your work !!

That's a great idea ! I'm not able to manage an online shop myself at the moment, but I've added it to my INPRNT. I know due to shipping and costs it's not ideal for everyone, but it's alI can do for now. Hopefully I'll be able to setup a partnership have an online shop of my own in the future.

I've also added my Saint Michael and Michel Berthier manuscript redraw.

If you are in France, you'll also be able to get these next month at YCON in Montreuil, and probably later on at Paris Citypop. See you around !

[angevinyaoiz]

John’s little booknook bookmobile + Isabella of Angouleme (Retrospring requests)

[vox-anglosphere]

Dunluce Castle has the most precarious perch of any castle in Ireland