#Michael Wolgemut

[maertyrer]

Michael Wolgemut Martyrdom of St. Jacob of Compostella

Colored woodcut from the first edition of Hartmann Schedel, "Liber Cronicarum", 14 x 11 cm, 1493

[briefblueseason]

Meditations on the luminous mysteries in the LGBTQ rosary by Fr. Don Greene.

🖼️: Baptism of the Lord by Paolo Caliari

Wedding at Cana by Andrei Mironov

Christ Preaching at Capernaum by Maurycy Gottlieb

Transfiguration by Titian

Last Supper by Michael Wolgemut

[the-mystic-gallery]

Wolgemut's woodcut illustration was printed in the Nuremberg Chronicle or Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles), an illustrated encyclopedia of world-historical accounts. The chronicle is divided into seven ages, and this particular woodcut contains a scene from Schedel's description of the seventh age, which is an outlook on the end of the world and the Last Judgment. In this hauntingly macabre scene, we witness dancing skeletons above a grave, in which a cadaver waves from beneath its shroud. Shreds of skin and even entrails hang off their bones. While gruesome, there’s beauty in this morbid art.

The motif departs from the typical portrayal of Death interacting with individuals from various walks of life. Instead, the focus is on the skeletal figures representing Death in their macabre dance. In this interpretation, the absence of living figures shifts the emphasis of the woodcut towards a more abstract and symbolic representation of death. The skeletal figures, devoid of any living counterparts, symbolise the universality of mortality and the inevitability of death that transcends individual identities and experiences.

While it may differ from traditional depictions of the "Dance of Death" motif, it offers a unique perspective on mortality and the human condition. The absence of living figures allows for a more contemplative exploration of death as a universal phenomenon, inviting viewers to reflect on the transience of life and the mysteries of existence.

[sporclechezchunklets]

From the Liber Chronicarum, also known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel, illustrated by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, published in Nuremberg, 1493.  The Illustration of Bede is on page 158v.

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 318

another wip on the danse macabre piece we got lines & flat colors now

[jacques-le-fataliste-23]

Workshop of Michael Wolgemut, ‘The Fifth day of creation’, Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 Via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Chronicle

[underafullmoon3]

The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel

The Danse Macabre, also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.

The Danse Macabre consists of the dead, or a personification of death, summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave. The effect is both frivolous and terrifying, beseeching its audience to react emotionally. It was produced as memento mori, to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain are the glories of earthly life.

[thegothicera]

Woodcut of St. Sebald by Michael Wolgemut, German (Nuremberg), ca. 1494-1495

[saintedseb]

St. Sebastian (Sebianus) (1493) - Workshop of Michael Wolgemut (German, 1434-1519)

[millicent-bystandr]

Today's treat is a series of base relief wood carvings on the Dancing Around the Tree wall hanging from Apartment Life. I wanted to try something different and I haven't seen many (any?) recolors of this mesh, even though I think it's pretty cute.

All the images, except for Danse Macabre, are AI-generated. There's AI weirdness in some of the images, but for me, it added an element of surrealism that worked here. Danse Macabre is from Michael Wolgemut's art in The Nuremberg Chronicles (1493). Frogs are an extra because I like frogs.

All files are clearly labeled and the preview images are included.

Swatch:

Download: SFS | Box

Possible issue: If you use Thread and Sandpaper's Sweet Down Low painting defaults, the thumbnail might appear too low in the catalog. I had to remove the file "EP8ALDancingAroundTheTree" and refresh the thumbnails. You can put the default back in after that and the thumbnails will stay fixed unless you delete your thumbnail package or refresh them.

Happy Simblreen!

Credits: Adobe Firefly, medieval obsession with death, and the awesome members of the Sims Crafters discord for their help

[beesbeesthrees]

Tim has been sick for a long time. / When is the cure worse than the disease?

detail, @ariadneurania / Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World, Katie Farris / Speckled King Snake, Mark Laita / Exercitationes de structura viscerum, Marcello Malpighi / Refusing Heaven, Jack Gilbert / The Dance of Death, Michael Wolgemut, Nuremburg Chronicles / Twists and Turns in the Bowels of the Neon Dragon, Jackie Wang / equivocal generation, cassiopeia721

inspired by equivocal generation by @cassiopeia721

[maertyrer]

Michael Wolgemut Martyrdom of St. Jacob Minor

Colored woodcut, 14 x 10,6 cm, from the first edition of Hartmann Schedel, "Liber Cronicarum", printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg on 12 July 1493

[spaydekingcayde]

woah I was tagged in a mutual game by @kroganloveinterest !! I am tagging my evil husband @meat-pvppet in this as well as my good friends @sovenderegn and @plagueprince and anyone else who’d like to do this.

What is the origin of your blog title?

Danse macabre — a French phrase meaning “Dance of Death,” is an art trope originating during the late medieval period that seeks to reminds us of the universal nature of death. The header I have to match is an example of such a piece — from 1493, by Michael Wolgemut (pictured below). It’s also a composition trope, as in Camille Saint-Saens’ composition that was also covered by the oh hellos in dear wormwood.

Favorite fandoms?

none I hate all you bitches (joke)

in all seriousness I’ve liked what the destiny community is, but I don’t really fully engage with any other fandom outside of it because I’m a narrow interests autistic lmao.

OTP(s) + ship name?

Unironically, Nebula + Cayde. Yes I know it’s oc/canon, idgaf gargle my nuts lol. nebbycayde is what I call them, and they’re the sole reason why I carrion icarian by Hozier was my number 1 Spotify wrapped song for 2024.

I’m also very very fond of their polycule, but there’s too many of them to condense into one ship name lmao.

Favourite color?

not purple (it’s purple)

Favourite game?

destiny (I have not seen the sun in weeks) (I also like sea of thieves)

Song stuck in your head?

���I’ve never had anything quite like a moose. (Primarily because my group was singing it tonight)

Weirdest habit or trait?

Not too sure? I do skin pick and bite my nails but that isn’t really “weird,” because a lot of people do it. I make a lot of clicking noises but that depends on if you consider vocal stims a weird autism trait.

Hobbies

Ploughing yer mum.

In all seriousness I enjoy writing and researching and picking up very specific knowledge about things, as well as re-enactment and the community stuff that comes with it.

If you work, what is your profession?

I have a major in Jack with a career in Shit (I do Nothing)

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be?

Astronaut! launch me up there.

But also a medieval scholar and general medieval history nut.

Something you’re good at?

getting bitches

In all seriousness I’m not too sure!

Something you’re bad at?

socialization

Something you excel at?

Slowly but surely procuring information about things and spewing them back to people, and I’m also Very literate I love reading and writing and comprehending literature

Something you love?

my husband : 3 and also my friends and my family

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff?

Destiny lore! But also Viking stuff and medieval history!

Something you hate?

insert obligatory edgy “myself” response. but the hatred I feel for myself is microscopic and nonexistent in the face of my hatred for cooked egg whites and their texture.

Something you collect?

Rocks, bones, pelts, all variants of trinkets and plushies!

Something you forget?

everything. every fucking thing

What’s your love language?

Food, physical touch, mutual infodumping, showing people things!

Favourite movie/show?

Unironically Nosferatu (2024) is really good, it’s the one I remember seeing most recently. I love Robert eggers

Favourite food?

Varies! but I like sushi, especially grilled eel.

Favorite animal?

Big list! But I’ve been particularly fond of coyotes as of late.

Are you musical?

No, I wish I was. I hope to change it though! I used to sing before I started T but it’s changed my voice so I’m hesitant now.

What were you like as a child?

don’t remember was probably annoying

Favorite subject in school?

English and literacy!

Least favourite subject?

math. I have a learning disability and was abused for it by my teachers

What’s your best character trait?

bitches love my autism swag

What’s your worst character trait?

I dunno. not that I’m perfect or anything but because if I think of one (1) of my flaws I will go on a terrible doom spiral and spend the rest of the night feeling like I’m the worst person on the planet.

If you could change any outcome of your day what would it be?

Nothing really! I just wish I wasn’t so tired at Yule today.

If you could travel in time who would you meet?

I would like to explore the medieval period! I also want to fight Saxo Grammaticus and also stand before Dante Alighieri in my cunty Dante getup (booty shorts with abandon all hope ye who enter here in glitter, tank top with no. 1 Virgil fan on it. Laurel wreath, stripper heels with “DANTE” on the fronts in glitter) just to watch that Italian disintegrate. and also because I would convince him to sign my copy of the divine comedy like meeting an author at a celebrity book meet

Recommend one of your favourite fics!

my own (they don’t exist 100% yet)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

A woodblock illumination of the fourth day of creation, by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, fifteenth century

* * * *

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

There was a day when a human hand first wrote those words. This sentence is a masterpiece of compression. It approximates as closely as words allow the instantaneous realization of an intent, the bringing into being of the diversity of things that make up the world of fundamental human experience. It describes an act and characterizes the Actor.

The Babylonian epic the Enuma Elish begins with an account of the gods in their generations not creating but emerging, through a kind of parturition, into a preexisting state of unbeing. Hesiod’s Theogony, a much later work that had authority as an inspired text among the ancient Greeks, also begins with the begetting of gods, though without the interesting Babylonian pause over the question of what preceded them. In the Hebrew narrative, Creation is unified by the recurrent phrase “and it was so,” evoking the sense of the instantaneous efficacy of God’s will, a sense of the marvelous particularity of each enrichment of the living world, and also a kind of reverent amazement on the part of the unimaginable knower, in effect the observer, of this emergence of being out of the void. It is the world we know—the sun giving light to the earth, sea creatures swarming, birds in flight across the heavens—seen in all their wondrous singularity, yet made one in the seven iterations of the word good. The goodness of God and His works, central to the whole of Scripture, are established together in a lovely catalogue of the things of this world.

[And It Was So :: Creation in Genesis] :: HARPERS magazine]

by Marilynne Robinson

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Macabre Valentine One

Danse Macabre - Michael Wolgemut // Everywhere, Everything - Noah Kahan

[love-for-carnation]

Portrait of Ursula Tucher nee Harsdorfer (from 1480 second wife of Hans Tucher elder), 1478 Michael Wolgemut (1434 - 1519, German)