#15th century art

[lionofchaeronea]

King Arthur. Illustration by an unknown artist from a 15th century Welsh manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (Historia Regum Britanniae). Now in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Photo credit: National Library of Wales.

[collectionstilllife]

Hans Memling (1430-1494) • Still Life with a Jug with Flowers (The reverse side of Portrait of a Praying Man) • c. 1480 • Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

[frostedmagnolias]

Front Cover for a Gospel Book of French Cardinal Jean La Balou (1421-1491)

c. 1467–68

Nielloed silver plaques within gilt-silver borders

Florence, Italy

Cleveland Art Museum

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Bian Jingzhao (Chinese, 1355–1428), "Bamboo and Cranes". Palace Museum, Beijing.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Mary Magdalene Borne Aloft.

Artist/Maker: Taddeo Crivelli (Italian, died ca. 1479, active about 1451-1479)

Date: ca. 1469

Place of origin: Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Medium: Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink.

[quo-usque-tandem]

Coiled serpent - Aztec, 15 century

[the-evil-clergyman]

Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci by Piero di Cosimo (1490)

[sex-death-rebirth]

The Queen of Sheba by Konrad Kyeser, c. 1405

[random-brushstrokes]

Albrecht Dürer - Pine (ca. 1495)

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #GooseDay 🪿:

Incense burner in the form of a goose

China, Ming dynasty, early 15th c.

Bronze, H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm); W. 18 3/4 in. (47 6 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 2020.335ab

“This incense burner is an extremely rare example of an imperially-commissioned bronze from the early Ming dynasty. Cleverly designed so that the fragrant incense is exhaled from the bird’s open beak, the censer artfully combines naturalism, ornamental detail, and a sense of history as it references similar incense burners first created during the Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) and revived during the Song (960–1279) and Yuan (1271–1368) dynasties. These earlier examples are typically simpler and less animated. The massive size, lively form, and meticulous details of the current work perfectly demonstrate the new taste and high standards of the early Ming period, when the imperial art patronage reached a new peak.”

[misespinas]

Saint Mary Magdalene by Gregor Erhart (1515-1520) // The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1485-1486)

[lionofchaeronea]

The Sun and Moon. Woodcut attributed to Albrecht Dürer, from folio 86r of the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel, published in 1493.

[flowerytale]

Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510), detail of "Idealised Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph)"

[zoeandsubaloveart]

Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)

(Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Bian Jingzhao (Chinese, 1355–1428), "Snow Plums and Twin Cranes". Guangdong Provincial Museum.

[theancientwayoflife]

▪︎ Comoediae.

Author: Terence (Roman, 195/185–159 B.C.); Printer: Johann (Reinhard) Gruninger (German, died ca. 1532) 

Date: 1499

Medium: Woodcuts (multiple)