Depictions of Saints and their patronages is an infinite source of all kinds of curiosities. An art historian working on medieval religious art has to study carefully mysterious attributes and surprising storylines of the Saints’ lives. And as I currently work on the Polish version of the ICONCLASS database, I…
In Central Europe, churches’ furniture dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries may often be a source of very interesting curiosities. For example, let’s take a look at pulpits: they sometimes had extremely weird shapes, as well as complex theological meaning. Some time ago I wrote about whale-shaped pulpits…
In my previous post I started a story about late-gothic panels from York, which used to be predella-wings of some Nuremberg altarpiece, created in the workshop of Hans Pleydenwurff. Before your read this post, you may want to get back to the previous one, especially on the subject of the…
Another article presenting results of my research in the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings project has just been published – therefore I decided to present some of these results also here on my blog. This time it is about a late gothic panel, painted on both sides, described in…
Once in a while I like to write about something medieval that supposed to had been serious, but somehow came out a bit ridiculous. That kind of post was the one about strange food in the depictions of the Last Supper (available HERE) or the one about misrepresented image of…