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The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, with over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at certain periods in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, genres, revivals, the artists' crafts, and the artists themselves.
Miniature of Sinon and the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, early 5th century. A miniature (from the Latin verb miniare 'to colour with minium', a red lead [1]) is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment.
Cennino Cennini's Il Libro dell'Arte provides a window on the practice of silver and leadpoint drawing, as well as preparing metalpoint grounds, in the late 14th century. [2] [3] Susan Dorothea White's book Draw Like da Vinci describes the silverpoint technique of Leonardo da Vinci. [4] Medieval stylus Modern silverpoint stylus
Pages in category "Medieval art" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The art of the Middle Ages was mainly religious, reflecting the relationship between God and man, created in His image. The animal often appears confronted or dominated by man, but a second current of thought stemming from Saint Paul and Aristotle, which developed from the 12th century onwards, includes animals and humans in the same community of living creatures.
Figure drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures, using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches.
There are two main theories concerning the motivations behind the drawing of the Plan. The dispute between scholars centres around the assertion put forward by Horn and Born in their 1979 work The Plan of Saint Gall, [4] that the Plan in the Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen was a copy of an original drawing issued by the court of Louis the Pious [5] after the synods held at Aachen in 816 and 817.
Detail from a medieval Doom wall-painting, St Andrew's Church, Chesterton, Cambridge, 15th century Slay Judgement, Fra Angelico, panel painting, 1425–1430 Last Judgement, Stefan Lochner, panel painting, 1435 St Mary's Church, North Leigh, Oxfordshire, 15th century St James's Church, South Leigh, Oxfordshire, 15th century Detail from the 12th-century mural at the Church of St Peter and St ...
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