The Getty Museum has a wonderful short film entitled "The Hidden Masters of the Middle Ages: the Limbourg Brothers"
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?segid=4307
They were painters of many famous illuminated manuscripts -- they did the first snowy landscape and perspective in these illumination. They were masters of painting during medieval times.
Also at the Getty is a very short (under 3 minutes) film called "The Structure of a Medieval Manuscript"
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?segid=4260
Friday, July 25, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Manuscript Hyper-links
Digitized mega-list of Manuscript Hyper-links
Hours and Hours of Manuscripts to fuel your scroll inspirations
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2014/07/this-years-summer-blockbuster-a-giant-list-of-digitised-manuscript-hyperlinks.html
Hours and Hours of Manuscripts to fuel your scroll inspirations
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2014/07/this-years-summer-blockbuster-a-giant-list-of-digitised-manuscript-hyperlinks.html
Thursday, July 17, 2014
How Manuscripts were made-Getty Musuem video
The Getty Museum has a video on how manuscripts are made. Well worth checking out.
http://sexycodicology.net/blog/getty-videos-medieval-manuscripts/
http://sexycodicology.net/blog/getty-videos-medieval-manuscripts/
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
The Alhambra in Spain is now a UNESCO site. This is a 3 minute video of the palace and some interesting tidbits of history
http://whc.unesco.org/include/tool_video.cfm?youtubeid=-CGqAiVoXn0
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Tour of Gothic Paris
If you have a French persona or a persona who travelled to Paris, you may want to look at and follow this tour of Gothic Paris with excellent photographs of cathedrals, portraits, carvings et al.
http://www.pinterest.com/iconofile/gothic-paris/
http://www.pinterest.com/iconofile/gothic-paris/
Monday, July 14, 2014
God made a Scadian
This is a wonderful piece that Duke Gunnar put together after seeing an ad on the Super Bowl Game that is awesome and I don't want it to get lost so I am posting it here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqpRw4WqBMM&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqpRw4WqBMM&feature=youtu.be
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