It's okay to laugh! I laugh at myself when I do things like that because it's usually my absent-mindedness at the root of it! :)
Oh, are we talking St. Bartholemew here? Michelangelo's Last Judgement shows him holding his own skin. Yeah, martyrdoms are fun stuff. Eeek.
To tell you the truth, I'm not sure the subject of the painting. Usually, we get so caught up in talking about the techniques and the common practices of illuminations of that period that I often don't know the players in the illumination. But, if it's to be my first piece, then I will be able to look at the book again and let you know!
Medieval illuminations amuse me because they're sometimes so amazingly beautiful ... until you look closer and, oh, that 3 cm tall guy is having his intestines drawn out on a crank. :^S Are you familiar with the Sforza Hours? That's one of my favorites (my mentor's too), and one that I've termed, "Fluffy bunnies! Gruesome torture." It has a tendency to have a page of bunnies frolicking followed by scenes of people being drawn and burned and everything else. (It also has an illustration of Mary Magdalene completely covered in brown hair like a sort of Cousin It, which I would love to use on a scroll someday! :^P)
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Oh, are we talking St. Bartholemew here? Michelangelo's Last Judgement shows him holding his own skin. Yeah, martyrdoms are fun stuff. Eeek.
To tell you the truth, I'm not sure the subject of the painting. Usually, we get so caught up in talking about the techniques and the common practices of illuminations of that period that I often don't know the players in the illumination. But, if it's to be my first piece, then I will be able to look at the book again and let you know!
Medieval illuminations amuse me because they're sometimes so amazingly beautiful ... until you look closer and, oh, that 3 cm tall guy is having his intestines drawn out on a crank. :^S Are you familiar with the Sforza Hours? That's one of my favorites (my mentor's too), and one that I've termed, "Fluffy bunnies! Gruesome torture." It has a tendency to have a page of bunnies frolicking followed by scenes of people being drawn and burned and everything else. (It also has an illustration of Mary Magdalene completely covered in brown hair like a sort of Cousin It, which I would love to use on a scroll someday! :^P)