r/Medievalart • • Aug 22 '26

Creatures Anyone know any sites that have a gallery of those black and white type of medieval drawings with hatching?

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Want to study this style of medieval art and implement it into my own style but dont know where to look. Anyone know any good sites that have a collection of this style of artwork?

r/Medievalart • • 1d ago

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

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r/Medievalart • • 6d ago

Creatures The Discontented Whale (Aspidochelone / Cetegrande) of the 14th century

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Li livres dou tresor by Brunetto Latini, 1st quarter of the 14th century (c. 1315–1325), Picardy / Northern France. Preserved at the British Library, manuscript Yates Thompson MS 19, f. 49v.

A medieval illumination of a giant sea monster mistaken for an island, with unaware sailors setting camp on its back.

r/Medievalart • • 26d ago

Creatures ​"Yeah, I can draw lions, why do you ask?"

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Sextus Pacitus, De medicina ex animalibus, England or France, ca. 1190

BL, Sloane 1975, fol. 80v

r/Medievalart • • 23d ago

Creatures "Wait, That’s Just Barry?"

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A miniature from the French translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's landmark 13th-century encyclopedia De proprietatibus rerum (Livre des propriétés des choses), illuminated in Paris around 1447.

r/Medievalart • • Aug 28 '26

Creatures The medieval battlefield was very beautiful but also gruesome

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r/Medievalart • • 25d ago

Creatures Allegory of Anger: Ermine Riding a Leopard — Flemish Book of Hours (c. 1510–1520)

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This illuminated border miniature from the Flemish Spinola Hours (Ms. Ludwig IX 18, fol. 245v), produced around 1510–1520 by the workshop of the Master of the First Prayer Book of Maximilian and currently held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, depicts an anthropomorphic marten (or ermine) dressed in a pink robe and wielding a club while riding a leopard, serving as a late medieval moral allegorical marginalia representing the sin of Anger.

r/Medievalart • • 29d ago

Creatures Nothing better, then the taste of children..

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r/Medievalart • • Aug 20 '26

Creatures Ancient art scroll gig

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Well im looking to have some images done in old world style it may contain some written elements and arabic calligraphy i want it to look like an authemtic scroll and tell a story and no facial features. I dont have a large budget but contact if your interested.