#my Real Opinion is Prouvaire would have LOVED the PRB But Alas he'd been dead like 16 years at that point | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

pilferingapples · 4 months ago

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Ooh let's ask some French Romantic Medievalist art!

[ID: Frontispiece of Notre-Dame de Paris, by Celestine Nanteuil. Several scenes and characters are displayed in the frame of the building. /End ID]

[ID: scene of Gringoire in the Court of Miracles from NDdP , painted by Celestine Nanteuil. The scene is very chaotic, with a lot of characters , using mostly light/dark contrast to bring attention to the main figures./end ID]

[ID: frontispiece for Hugo's Lucrece Borgia, by Nanteuil again, depicting the three main characters in their "medieval" costumes. /end ID ]

[ID: costumes from Hugo's Hernani and Lucrecia Borgia ]

[ID: another Nanteuil illo of Lucrecia Borgia, showing three men in medievalist dress/end ID]

[ID: Boulanger painting of a crowded scene from Lucrecia Borgia /ID]

...hmmm

Is Jehan a Medieval art or a “medieval art” type of guy?

#I hope you don't mind I added some Romantic Medievalism to your Romantic Medievalist post #my Real Opinion is Prouvaire would have LOVED the PRB But Alas he'd been dead like 16 years at that point #and the French Romantics were busy making their own inaccuracies #but as you can see with Nanteuil's framing frontispieces #they WERE often inspired by actual medieval art #the most accessible for people probably being the buildings #they would have LOVED memeing with marginalia #(FWIW Renaissance counts as Medieval for Prouvaire Reference Purposes)#'wait did you have these images just lying ar-' yes. yes of course I did #anyway. I am guessing his Accuracy to be like. Renfair Level #Romantic Medievalism is about Having Fun and Being True to Yourself and creating an imagined past to use as a parable for modern issues #and also carrying a dagger. the dagger is CRUCIAL #(I really agonized over my vote here)

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