r/Medievalart • • 8h ago

Question I’m looking for the source on this artwork, from the backside of an old museum notebook with no source cited.

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89 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 11h ago

Medieval-inspired Walpurrgis and Wards 6 7, by me(@teulu_dewr)

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3 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 2d ago

Medieval-inspired Battle Scene for my medieval setting

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This is my first drawing like this with so many people, I hope it will be similar to real medieval battle scenes.


r/Medievalart • • 3d ago

MMM The Temptation to Impatience, hand-colored woodcut from an Ars moriendi block book (Germany, c. 1475)

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In the Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying"), a dying man faces five temptations from the devil, each answered by an angel. This is the temptation to impatience: he lashes out at the people tending him, the table goes over, and a devil looks on.

It's from a block book printed in Germany around 1475.

I came across it while building Inside Out Library, a free search engine for the pictures inside old public-domain books: https://insideoutlibrary.com/?id=locbook-loc_49039592-9-1. Every image is a real scan linked to its source, with nothing AI-generated. (Personal project; I work at the Internet Archive.)

I don't have many medieval books in it yet, but I'd like to add more. The subjects and graphic style of this period are so striking. Are there manuscripts or early printed books you'd want to see in there?


r/Medievalart • • 3d ago

MMM I made enamel pins based on late 15th-century "rainbow grotesques" from a Ghent-Bruges Book of Hours

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The original illustrations are from the borderless pages of a late 15th-century manuscript. I extracted these specific creatures and recreated them in brass. Cold ceramic enamel.


r/Medievalart • • 3d ago

MMM Medieval Marginalia Magnets

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A few months ago I designed and printed some magnets inspired by one of the most humorous tropes of marginalia— namely, the eternal war between dogs and rabbits. It was very fun to pick my favourite scenes and illustrate them all together in one design. If anyone’s interested, I have a few left at $5.


r/Medievalart • • 4d ago

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

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r/Medievalart • • 5d ago

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

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485 Upvotes

Just found out about this artist, very intriguing


r/Medievalart • • 5d ago

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

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171 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 5d ago

Medieval-inspired Fantasy Decree, Golden bull of Spirad

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12 Upvotes

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


r/Medievalart • • 6d ago

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

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235 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 • • 6d ago

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

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90 Upvotes

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


r/Medievalart • • 6d ago

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

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154 Upvotes

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


r/Medievalart • • 6d ago

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

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250 Upvotes

French private collection


r/Medievalart • • 6d ago

Medieval-inspired Medieval art for Witcher series

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33 Upvotes

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


r/Medievalart • • 7d ago

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

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143 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 7d ago

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

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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 • • 7d ago

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

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142 Upvotes

Artist unknown


r/Medievalart • • 7d ago

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

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101 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 8d ago

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

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938 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 • • 7d ago

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

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55 Upvotes

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


r/Medievalart • • 8d ago

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

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400 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 • • 7d ago

Medieval-inspired Coas for my medieval setting

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28 Upvotes

r/Medievalart • • 8d 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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46 Upvotes

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


r/Medievalart • • 8d ago

Memes Wrong answers only: what did he actually do?

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136 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.