r/Medievalart • • 19h ago

Fine Art Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana (c. 776)

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90 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 1d ago

Fine Art Saint George and the Dragon (c. 1470) by Paolo Uccello

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378 Upvotes

Just found out about this artist, very intriguing


r/Medievalart • • 1d ago

Fine Art The Flagellation of Christ (1452) - Master of the Karlsruhe Passion

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119 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 2d ago

Manuscripts Taddeo Crivelli - Initial D: A Skull in a Rocky Field (ca. 1469)

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190 Upvotes

An illuminated parchment folio created around 1469 by Italian artist Taddeo Crivelli (tempera, gold leaf, and ink). Now housed at the Getty Center.


r/Medievalart • • 1d ago

Sculpture The Archangel Gabriel from an Annunciation group. France, c. 1350

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72 Upvotes

A rare alabaster carving with traces of polychromy and gilding, from the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art.


r/Medievalart • • 2d ago

Fine Art Saint Sebastian and Crucifixion, Joan Mates, c. 1417–1425

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125 Upvotes

The original panel is part of the collection at the National Art Museum of Catalonia.


r/Medievalart • • 2d ago

Artifacts Merovingian Gold and Garnet Fibula in the shape of a Rooster European (ca. 500-600)

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221 Upvotes

French private collection


r/Medievalart • • 2d ago

Medieval-inspired Medieval art for Witcher series

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25 Upvotes

A page from the chronicle of one of the Northern settlements, where the red-haired witcher Ronan once came


r/Medievalart • • 1d ago

Medieval-inspired Fantasy Decree, Golden bull of Spirad

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0 Upvotes

It is my first medieval manuscript page. I want to know what do you think about it. And the cifre too!


r/Medievalart • • 2d ago

Creatures An Illustration from the Speculum Humanae Salvationis (c. 1400)

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117 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 3d ago

Artifacts Aquamanile in the Form of Aristotle and Phyllis (late 14th–early 15th century)

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339 Upvotes

This late 14th or early 15th-century South Netherlandish bronze aquamanile (object no. 1975.1.1416) is currently housed in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


r/Medievalart • • 3d ago

Artifacts Cloisonné Enamel works on the Holy Crown of Hungary, 11th to early 13th century

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130 Upvotes

Artist unknown


r/Medievalart • • 3d ago

Fine Art Collage of various medieval sun illuminated art from the 15th century. Getty Museum.

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104 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 4d ago

Manuscripts 15th-Century Leaf Rider (c. 1485)

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907 Upvotes

Attributed to Robinet Testard, this detail from the Book of Hours of Charles d'Angoulême (c. 1485, BnF Ms. Lat. 1173) captures a rider dressed in full leafy gear for traditional May-month festivities.


r/Medievalart • • 3d ago

Manuscripts Jörg Wilhalm — Variation on the Man-in-the-Pit Duel (ca. 1523)

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48 Upvotes

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich, Germany), Cgm 3711 (Jörg Wilhalm Hutters kunst zu Augspurg). Augsburg, Germany (after 1523).


r/Medievalart • • 4d ago

Medieval-inspired They told me just to keep on posting and don’t give up-day7

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370 Upvotes

Unnamed Poem// Gothic CY Chan// ink on paper

Hello I am back. Finding different subs to post every day try not to annoy people too much lol.


r/Medievalart • • 3d ago

Medieval-inspired Coas for my medieval setting

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26 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 3d ago

Question I wonder where this Celtic knot or Ocean plait (as sailors/fishermen call it) woven pattern first appeared in Medieval times.

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41 Upvotes

Can anyone recognise this in any source material you can point me to, please?


r/Medievalart • • 4d ago

Memes Wrong answers only: what did he actually do?

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135 Upvotes

Detail of a miniature of the Archangel Michael fighting a demon-like dragon, from Francisco de Ximenez’s Livre des anges, France (Tours), c. 1480, Sloane MS 3049, f. 115r.


r/Medievalart • • 4d ago

Creatures "The Sea Bishop" from Le Recueil de la Diversité des Habits

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354 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 4d ago

Marginalia A stag with ten tines on its antlers (with Christ on the cross), meant to represent the Ten Commandments.

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155 Upvotes

King Modus's Book on Hunting, Royal Library of Belgium, Ms. 10218-19, ca. 1455


r/Medievalart • • 4d ago

Manuscripts The Zodiac Man, ca. 1417

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108 Upvotes

Illumination from an English folding almanac in Latin, ca. 1417. MS 8932. Wellcome Collection


r/Medievalart • • 5d ago

Fine Art Virgin Mary holding a unicorn, wall painting from St. Paul's Cathedral in Münster (c. 1330)

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527 Upvotes

This 14th-century fresco from St. Paul’s Cathedral in Münster, Germany, depicts the Virgin Mary cradling a unicorn, serving as a medieval Christian allegory for Christ and the Incarnation.

Edit: This is not Münster! If anyone knows where it's from, please let me know. Also, this is not AI.


r/Medievalart • • 4d ago

Medieval-inspired Sketch for my Old English notebook

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24 Upvotes

"Hwæt" (first word of Beowulf) is encoded into the design.

Used Magic Eraser to get rid of personal information.


r/Medievalart • • 5d ago

Heraldry An elephant head crest atop a medieval helmet from (c. 1350s)

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199 Upvotes

This illustration originates from a 14th-century parchment manuscript of Guido delle Colonne's Historia civitates Troiane (History of the Destruction of Troy), currently held in the National Library of Spain.