#medievalengraving

[jadoretotravel]

I loved how this chain has dug into the brick over the centuries! Can you see the pattern the metal was engraved with by a medieval blacksmith? It’s just those little details that make little pieces like this, so special photo©jadoretotravel #jadoretotravel #medievalblacksmith #medievalengraving #blacksmithsworks #walkingsiena #sienametalwork #walkingitaly #viadicittasiena #walkingviadicitta (at Siena, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7TMXHsn-oL/?igshid=csez88gxddu2

[upennmanuscripts]

Ms. Bodl. 264, digitized and online here

The Romance of Alexander - 1338-1344 Bodleian Library-University of Oxford.

[witchcity]

Hello from 1491. 👋 . . An imaginative illustration of the narcissus flower from Meydenbac’s ORTUS SANITATUS in the Fifteenth Century. . . . #witchcityink #salemsbesttattoos #salem #salemma #salemmassachusetts #artappreciation #arthistory #narcissus #narcissusflower #botanicalengraving #medieval #medievalengraving #engraving #meydenbach #ortussanitatis #1491 #weloveoldbooks https://ift.tt/2KrviPu

[rhianna]

Source: medievalengravings

#devil      #vanity

A vain woman looks for herself in the mirror and sees a devil’s anus instead

Albrecht Dürer - Flamboyant Woman at the Mirror (1498) aka the Devil and the Coquette, copy of an illustration from ‘Der Ritter von Turm’, Augsburg