Finally sorted out my major essays for this semester.

My Classical Mythology only has 2 minor essay, one I’ve already done, but my second is on Artemis, Athene and Aphrodite and which one is more vengeful, BWAHAHAH! Love it!

My Medieval Europe one is discussing the rise of the Cult of the Virgin Mary from the 12th Century. So that’ll be cool! I looove Medieval history and I wanted to do a Masters in it but this course is kinda bringing me down about it. We had to choose our own essay topic and I had no idea. Maybe I’m not cut out to be a true Medievalist?

(I’m only doing 3 classes soo…) My last is Portraiture and Power and I’m doing Boucher portraits of Madame de Pompadour. WOOO! Because I saw the amazing one in Munich Alte Pinakothek in December. Easier to write about art you’ve seen in real life. ;) There’s another one in Melbourne but I don’t know if I can really fly over for that before the essay is due. ;_;

Anywho, that’s what I’m working on for now. Oh, and a visual analysis on Las Meninas by Velasquez after my group presentation on it. ARGH! Maybe I should do Art History Masters?

thegetty:

This is no ordinary hedgehog. The bestiary (book of beasts) this little guy inhabits describes the imaginative way this hedgehog gathers fruits. He spears grapes with his spikes and rolls through the vine, collecting more and more as he goes. Moral of the story? Care for your spiritual truths, or the devil may carry them off. 

A Hedgehog (detail), Franco-Flemish, about 1270. Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum

God Speed by Edmund Blair Leighton

Long Ago by Emile Munier, 1888

Sleeping Beauty by John Collier

Lancelot and Guinevere by Herbert Draper

mediumaevum:

Piers Plowman (written ca. 1360–1387) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman (William’s Vision of Piers Plowman) is the title of a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections called “passus” (Latin for “step”).Piers is considered by many critics to be one of the early great works of English literature along with Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the Middle Ages.

Livro de Kells.

art-history:

Mappa mundi (Map of the World) from the ‘Map Psalter,’ c. 1260 (via mapsandcharts)

View an interactive version via BBC Four’s “The Beauty of Maps” feature.