Illumanu

This tumblr aspires to become a helpful resource for history (and mainly fashion history) research and focuses primarily on illuminations from medieval and renaissance manuscripts.

Note: I am not a professional fashion historian. If you spot any inconsistency or outright fallacy somewhere in the picture descriptions please feel free (or even better, obliged) to let me know!

Posts tagged "virgin and child"

first half of the 14th century (ca. 1300-1330), French - Champagne

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Met

http://metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/170007605

15th century (1400-1420) Slovakia

Virgin and child from Ďapalovce

Bratislava, Slovenská národná galéria

http://www.webumenia.sk/web/guest/detail/-/detail/id/SVK:SNG.P_1512/Slovensk%C3%BD%20rezb%C3%A1r%20z%201.%20tretiny%2015.%20storo%C4%8Dia

15th century (ca. 1470) Germany

Virgin and Child by Master of the Life of the Virgin

Staatliche Museen zur Berlin

http://www.gluckliche-eme.com/miscgermanartists.htm

last quarter of the 14th or first third of the 15th century century Italy

Virgin and Child with St Nicholas, St Catherine of Siena and donor by Gentile da Fabriano (1370-1427)

Berlin, Gemäldegalerie

http://onokart.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/giovanni-del-biondo/

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gentile_da_Fabriano_-_Mary_Enthroned_with_the_Child,_Saints_and_a_Donor_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

late 15th century (1492-1498) Netherlands

Madonna in a Landscape by an unknown artist, possibly the Master of the Madonna Grog or Aert van den Bossche, formerly attr. to Master of the Embroidered Foliage

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/1100/virgin-and-child-in-a-landscape

beginning of the 16th century (ca. 1500) France - Rouen

University of Oxford, Bodleian Library

MS. Buchanan e. 3: Book of Hours

fol. 74r - Virgin and Child with what is probably a female owner of the book

The owner is depicting wearing the typical late 15th/early 16th century fashion. The black hood is a predecessor of later French hoods (A beautiful example of a something-in-between hood can be seen here. Basically, the wings of the hood (the rectangle of fabric framing the face) became the frontlet, acquiring the jewelled part called the billiment in the process. These type of hoods were around for a long time before, in many variations - buttoned in front with long hanging tip, with widened wings, combined with hennin etc. etc.)The neckline is deep and squared and edged - same as the cuffs of the long, broadening oversleeves - in what is probably white fur. There is a rosary hanging at the woman’s girdle and she seems to be wearing a necklace which creates a typical v above her bodice.

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/buchanan/e/003.b.htm