Weird art wrought in ages past

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 16h ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) An embroidered bag with the Royal Arms of England. It was made in 1280 to protect the wax seal attached to a royal charter during the reign of Edward I.

297 Upvotes

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r/MedievalCreatures • u/-_-Bepo-_- • 1d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) When you travel, it’s the people you’re with that matter, not where you’re going.

235 Upvotes

Jacquemart Gielée, Renart le Nouvel, 1301-1320, Français 372, Folio 37r. BnF

11 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 2d ago

RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) Pages from the sketchbook of Stephan Schriber (1494). A manuscript which appears to be some kind of sketchbook, belonging to the fifteenth-century monk, where ideas and layouts for illuminated manuscripts were tried out and skills developed

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598 Upvotes

14 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Glittering-Hornet844 • 2d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) A load of balls -

150 Upvotes

5 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/PeasantLich • 3d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) King Afonso V of Portugal with his little buddy (15th century)

392 Upvotes

15 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 3d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) 🎶 The neck bone connected to the...oh...

630 Upvotes

Source: Hours of Saint-Omer (produced in France around 1320)

15 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/emilos260 • 4d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) The party elephant is here! (from Matthew Paris's chronicle - 13th century)

178 Upvotes

5 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 4d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) In medieval manuscripts, hedgehogs are depicted with fruit on their spines. It was said that they would climb up vines or shake them, then roll around on the fallen grapes spearing them with their quills. This way, they could carry all the fruit home to feed their young

627 Upvotes

Illustration from the Rochester Bestiary, ca. 1230

24 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Glittering-Hornet844 • 4d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Leucrota be kidding -

146 Upvotes

4 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/emilos260 • 5d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Saint Anthony getting beaten by demons - Aragon, 15th century

336 Upvotes

21 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Glittering-Hornet844 • 5d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Yale never believe this -

73 Upvotes

The Yale from The Medieval Bestry circa 1200 - 1210.

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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 5d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) St. Margaret of Antioch walloping the demon Beelzebub with a hammer. From the paintings of the mystical marriage of St. Catherine, circa 1340

1.4k Upvotes

34 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 6d ago

RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) Detail from The Witches’ Cove, a 16th-century Flemish painting attributed to a follower of Jan Mandijn.

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1.5k Upvotes

27 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Gold-Honeydew5948 • 7d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Can you please help me find this owl ?

482 Upvotes

11 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Glittering-Hornet844 • 7d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Good you wiped your feet before coming inside -

130 Upvotes

2 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Solo_Polyphony • 7d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Because even Jesus had a horsey toy

170 Upvotes

Initial O: The Virgin Mary Reading and Jesus Riding a Hobbyhorse
Circle of Jean Colombe (Paris, ca. 1480)

Tempera colors, gold, silver, and ink on parchment.

In a copy of The Hours of Anthony of Burgundy, Private collection, L.2021.70, fols. 224v-225.

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r/MedievalCreatures • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • 7d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) “Imagine a big thing like you being scared…”

293 Upvotes

War Elephant with Soldiers. France, c. 1360–1365 Illumination from the Bible historiale.
National Library of France, Department of Manuscripts, French 5707, fol. 172r.

10 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 7d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) don't talk to me or my son ever again

1.2k Upvotes

17 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/emilos260 • 7d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Adam naming the animals

375 Upvotes

37 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Glittering-Hornet844 • 8d ago

RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) The Monk Fish

158 Upvotes

2 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Glittering-Hornet844 • 8d ago

RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) The Bishop Fish -

280 Upvotes

8 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 8d ago

RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) Artist: Yes, of course I've seen a horse!

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2.2k Upvotes

17th Century painting of Santiago Matamoros. Unknown artist.

Currently on display at National Museum of Art (MNA) of Bolivia, based in La Paz.

49 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/-_-Bepo-_- • 8d ago

MODERN (1700s - 1800s) Raise your hand if you feel guilty when you’re on a diet

119 Upvotes

Workshop of Minko Iwaemon, netsuke depicting a tanuki, c. 1790 - 1810, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan.

2 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • 9d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) A rabbit facing forward

510 Upvotes

Book of Hours, France, circa 1280-90 (specifically Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 111, fol. 136r)

9 comments

r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 9d ago

MODERN (1700s - 1800s) The Danse Macabre

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1.5k Upvotes

34 comments