Archives Curated By a Weirdo
This title page is associated with 4 people! Printmaker: Adriaen Collaert; After a design by: Jan Van der Straet; Publisher: Philips Galle; Writer: Cornelis Killiaan.
Image is from the Rijksmuseum and are under Public Domain License.
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This piece is by Abraham Bloemaert. Lots of cool imagery in art depicting Mary Magdalene. Usually it involves a skull, caves, long hair, and books. The religious meaning behind the illustrations are less important to me than the visual, but I’m sure they all have a deeper meaning that some appreciate as well.
Image is from Rijksmuseum and Wikimedia Commons, under Public Domain License.
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The Full title of this piece is “Fortune, Labor, Care, Thrift, Fraud – Honest and Dishonest Ways of Becoming Rich.” The artist is Philip Galle, after Maerten Van Heemskerck.
Image is from the National Gallery of Art and Wikimedia Commons, under Public Domain Dedication.
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The story of McFanny. Includes 7 illustrations of this Poop pranking rascal! He takes it too far, and his bum pays dearly for it.
McFanny was a simple man. Spending his days working and his lunches being a rascal. Most people disliked him, but he was harmless. In the beginning, his go to prank was the âbutt wiggleâ.
Then one day everything changedâŚ
Continue reading “Pooping Pranks (1515) by Unknown”The expression on the face of this ‘fool’ is quite hilarious! The question is, are we laughing at him or with him? I guess as long as we are laughing, he is doing his job.
Image is from the North Holland Archive and Wikimedia Commons, under Public Domain License.
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A Scold’s bridle, sometimes called a witch’s bridle, a gossip’s bridle, a brank’s bridle, or simply branks, was an instrument of punishment, as a form of torture and public humiliation.
(Photo)Scold’s Bridle, 1550-1800 under (CC BY 4.0) – Credit Wellcome Collection. Information from Wikipedia(CC BY-SA 3.0). (Art)1870 Two Scold’s Bridles under Public Domain License.
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“After three days and nights in the belly of the fish, the fish Spits Jonah out on land. God looks at Jonah from a cloud. The water at sea is calm and the sun is just starting up…”
Attributed to Philips Galle(printmaker), Maarten Van Heemskerck(drawing), Hadrianus Junius(writer), and Gerard de Jode(publisher).
Image is from Rijksmuseum and is under Public Domain License.
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An absolute unit⌠His knees have a 6 pack!!!
Image is from the National Gallery of Art and Wikimedia Commons, under Public Domain Dedication.
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By Hans Wecht. This is a decorative skull with a lovely frame. At the bottom of the image is the text âMundanae foelicitatis gliaâ, which is Latin. It translates as âWorldly happiness gliaâ. Glia refers to the cells in the nervous system.
Image is from the Wellcome Collection and Wikimedia Commons, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Information is from Wikipedia(CC BY-SA 3.0).
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“Saint Margaret of Antioch appears without injuries from the dragon’s belly thanks to the sign of the cross in her hands. She is honored by two angels who also both hand her a palm branch…”
Rijksmuseum
This piece is associated with the following people: Johannes Wierix(printmaker); Jan van der Straet(designer), and Philips Galle(Publisher).
As amazing as the story sounds, the real reason this image is awesome – the dragon!! Look at its crazy facceee!! Bonus dragon boobs, if you are into that.
“Martyrdom of Saint Margaret of Antioch” (1559-1612) is made available by Rijksmuseum(Dutch national museum), under Public Domain.
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