Tag: Illuminated manuscripts

  • Delightfully Horrifying Manuscript Illuminations

    Delightfully Horrifying Manuscript Illuminations

    from blogs.getty.edu: Illuminated manuscripts provided the medieval reader-viewer with a rich array of images that often rival those that we encounter on Halloween, from gory scenes of decapitated martyrs or arrow-pierced saints to walking cadavers, creepy spiders, spooky cemeteries, and even witches and ghosts. The images that follow had a variety of functions: some served…

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