Scipione Pulzone, Portrait of Bianca Capello, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (detail), 1584 (x)
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You must be on the warm sands of the sahara with those clothes
hay que estar en las calurosas arenas del sahara con esas ropas
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Entertainment in a medieval book
The margins of a medieval book are usually empty. This is handy, because it means you can place notes in them, or fill them with doodles, like here. In this particular case the reader decided to add spectacular illustrations to the margins. Not only do they show us snapshots of medieval individuals living their lives, which is special enough, the images are often also quite funny. Humour is not an unusual occurrence in such old books, as I showed here. However, to have this much fun in the margins is not very common.
Pics: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 (14th c). Browse the entire manuscript here and start enjoying dozens more images.
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sky, cloud, sun, mountain, ocean, reflection, beach - matsushima
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Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) - Pallas Athene (ca. 1539)
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Buddha schist
From Gandhara, Pakistan
Kushan Dynasty, 2nd - 3rd century AD
Source: Tokyo National Museum
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