Comments | wizzard890: Art. This Shit Is Crazy: Seven Works of Western Medieval Art Everybody Needs to Know.

wizzard890

Art. This Shit Is Crazy: Seven Works of Western Medieval Art Everybody Needs to Know.

Feb 07, 2011 03:08

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Find somebody. Anybody. Go up to them. Say the phrase “Renaissance art”. I can guarantee you that the following thoughts will go through their head.

( Penises! Oh, uh, I--just kidding, um, I mean--the David! Leonardo da Vinci! Patronage! The Medici family! Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello and--fuck, I’m out of Ninja Turtles...oh, Caravaggio! Popes and shit! Sexy Jesus! )

art: this shit is crazy, i want in your cloisters, artsy things

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wizzard890 February 7 2011, 16:33:18 UTC

*headtilt*

How to you mean?

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wizzard890 February 7 2011, 17:24:54 UTC

Oh, I see. Well, dude, I like writing these posts! They're fun, and they prompt people to talk about art, and if I can flatter myself, I feel like they're a pretty rad way of making a difficult subject accessible. If you dug it, then I am okay. Plus, you teach me cool shit all the time, don't even.

daegaer February 7 2011, 17:38:59 UTC

Ooh, mediaeval art, mmm! I offer you an angel with a feather duster from the Book of Kells to entice you to write more :D

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wizzard890 February 7 2011, 18:29:45 UTC

I FEEL SO BAD FOR LEAVING OUT THE BOOK OF KELLS. DD=

Look at his eyes. He knows I do.

But his wings are so pretty that I cannot resist~

daegaer February 8 2011, 16:42:04 UTC

Oh! I knew I had something relevant to add: in Reading Town Museum there is a life-size replica of the Bayeaux Tapestry, done by a 19th century embroiderers. Each of them has signed the bit she worked on, and a little naked guy in the original is wearing modesty shorts in the copy :-)

The museum also has a gallery dedicated to biscuits, including a biscuit that survived the Blitz. Truly, this is what England is about.

hiza_chan February 7 2011, 20:07:10 UTC

You are so fucking awesome.

I may have laughed more and learned more while reading this than I did in any of my classes. You, my dear, are epic.

When a Renaissance and a Middle Ages love one another very much, decide to get kinky, and invite the Netherlands to watch, this is what happens.

EPIC.

wizzard890 February 7 2011, 23:01:47 UTC

*bluuush*

I always find that laughter tends to make facts stick. If you ever need to remember Harold II, well. Ye olde love machine. Log that shit away.

zalia February 7 2011, 21:45:44 UTC

:D I actually feel rather chuffed that I recognise more than half of these! (And the stained glass at York Minster is gorgeous!)

Thankyou so much for posting this! It's been fascinating to read :D I learned things! \o/

wizzard890 February 7 2011, 23:02:24 UTC

Yay you! =D They are works of art that everybody should be aquainted with, I think.

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wizzard890 February 7 2011, 23:05:21 UTC

Those hangings are French, I believe, and they're called the Lady With the Unicorn Tapestries. Named for the express purpose of confusing the hell out of people. XD The hunt of the unicorn was a fairly common motif in medieval art, and I bet there are tapestries depicting it that I haven't even heard of.