Items matching drolleries (results page 1)

Strange and Fantastical CreaturesBuch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

I cannot read the text (it’s in mediæval German), so these descriptions are arbitrary; I’d welcome better descriptions. Duck with head of dog Sea-lion? Winged two-legged horse strange clawed bull-like [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, paintings, colour, drolleries

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Added: 2012-02-13

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Winged Mermaid from p. 199 rectoBuch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

A fifteenth-century drawing of a mermaid with wings (and breast) taken from fol. 199r of a (somewhat dubious) textbook on natural history. The mermaid has the trunk and head of a woman, the tail of a [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, mermaids, paintings, colour, drolleries, drawings, sketches

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Added: 2012-02-14

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Decorative initial letter “E” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A letter E in a late uncial tradition, complete with drolleries, or humorous creatures, in the vines in the counters, the spaces nside the letter. This E is in red, with a peach light orange filling, [...]

Keywords: lettere, initials, calligraphy, drolleries, blue, yellow, red, green, colour

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Added: 2012-12-14

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Drollery (margin-creatre), Lion with TabardThe Rylands Haggadah (1575)

A drollery, or grotesque, from the margin of folio 33b: a lion with a tabard and an almost-human face.

Keywords: drolleries, mythical creatures, calligraphy, illumination, colour

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Added: 2008-10-14

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Drollery (margin-creature), Blue RabbitThe Rylands Haggadah (1575)

A drollery, or grotesque, from the margin of folio 33b: a blue rabbit!

Keywords: drolleries, mythical creatures, animals, calligraphy, illumination, colour

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Added: 2008-10-14

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Drollery (margin-creature), Jester CentaurThe Rylands Haggadah (1575)

A drollery, or grotesque, from the margin of folio 33b: a centaur dressed as a jester.

Keywords: drolleries, mythical creatures, centaurs, calligraphy, illumination, colour

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Added: 2008-10-14

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Stylized Black DragonThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This dragon, white on a black background, was taken from a fourteenth century decorative initial; it is also in the style of a drollery, the strange creatures used to illustrate mediæval manuscripts. [...]

Keywords: dragons, drolleries, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2014-02-22

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Red Dragon on Blue BackgroundThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This dragon, coloured red on a blue background, was taken from a fourteenth century decorative initial; it was drawn rather in the style of a drollery, the strange creatures used to illustrate mediæva [...]

Keywords: dragons, mythical creatures, colour, drolleries

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Added: 2014-02-22

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Border with troubadors and drolleriesLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Three-quarter page foliated border, printed in gold-coloured ink, featuring three anthopomorphic dog-men (increasingly dog-like from left to right), a demon or satyr, a two-headed drollery or Janus, a [...]

Keywords: borders, drolleries, people, mythical creatures, colour

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Added: 2011-04-02

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Border detail: two-faced drolleryLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A drollery; these were strange and grotesque creatures placed in the margins of manuscripts by mediaeval scribes. This one is from 1910, in imitation of mediaeval drolleries. It is a creature with a f [...]

Keywords: drolleries, mythical creatures, colour

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Added: 2011-04-02

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Border detail: Satyr or horned devilLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A drollery; these were strange and grotesque creatures placed in the margins of manuscripts by mediaeval scribes. This one is from 1910, in imitation of mediaeval drolleries. It is a devil, or satyr, [...]

Keywords: drolleries, mythical creatures, colour, devils, occult

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Added: 2011-04-02

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Medieval-style border with dog chasing rabbitLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

This full-page border is in the style of a border from a medieval/mediæval illuminated manuscript. There’s a dog chasing a hare (or rabbit) and two birds.

Keywords: borders, drolleries, floriated borders, colour

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Added: 2015-07-28

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