Drollery + Loncha Velasco DJ set en La Casa Vieja
Book of Hours, France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
The Songbook of Zeghere van Male contains local and international 500 year old songs and motets. Made in 1542, the 1200-page long book is rich in illuminations, depicting ornamental and historiated initials and interlinear drawings not necessarily related to its content. Also known by its call number MS 125-128 in Cambrai’s Mediathèque Municipale, the late … Continue reading "Weird And Wonderful Illustrated Letters From A 16th Century Songbook"
France, Cambrai, Le Labo - Cambrai - 128 (124)
Holidays or not, I can’t sit all day long, contemplating my navel so I took few things with me on the camping trip, including my below...
Book of Hours, France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1465
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Illuminated manuscripts from medieval Europe are teeming with grotesque illustrations. Also known as drollery, this style of painting combines humans, animals, foliage and inanimate objects to create bizarre hybrids of characters, environments and everything in between. Some other hallmarks of grotesque artwork in medieval books is that they are usually small-scale, highly decorative, and populate the margins surrounding a body of text. The meaning and purpose behind the bizarre imagery found in grotesques is my primary research question for this project. Sometimes these illustrations had a connection to the thematic or allegorical elements of the text they accompanied, but other times they were simply doodles perhaps with no intended meaning at all.
Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine.
A drollerie (also spelled as drollery) is a type of marginalia found on Medieval manuscripts. Drolleries are amusing, often grotesque, figures drawn on the
