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Tag: drawings

Curious naked people in medieval margins: boulder man

November 18, 2012 Marc Abrahams

This image [below], of a naked man holding a boulder as both hurtle down towards a meeting with what may be a homunculus playing with an airborne dog, puzzles some scholars who study medieval documents. It — and many other unexpected drawings, quite a few of which feature naked people pursuing vigorous activities — populate […]

Arts and Science, Boys Will Be Boysbook, drawings, medieval

Marginal images: Medieval trumpet and voiding

June 14, 2012 Marc Abrahams

Peculiar drawings in the margins enliven a manuscript, made in or around the year 1350, of Jacques de Longuyon‘s poem ” Les Voeux du Paon” (English translation: “Vows of the Peacock”). The Morgan Library owns a copy (Morgan Library MS G 24) and has put some of these images online. Here are a few, each […]

Arts and Science, Boys Will Be Boysart, drawings, history, margin, medieval, peacock, vow

Which witch drawings for Halloween?

October 29, 2011 Marc Abrahams

As Halloween draws near, some people draw drawings of witches.Which size witch they draw depends on the day, suggests a study resented at the seventieth Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association: August 30-September 5, 1962, in St. Louis, Missouri. The following year, a formal study was published: “Size of Halloween witch drawings prior to, on, […]

Arts and Science, Research Newsdrawings, halloween, witch
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