Flowers and the world's bounty depicted in arguably Guiseppe Archimboldo's masterpiece - his portrait of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, as Vertumnus, Roman god of the seasons (1591). Archimboldo's composite portraits are among my favourite works of art. #WyrdWednesday #16thC #mannerism #artsky
Counted Thread Shirring (Puntu Vanu)

Updated 8/29/2024 I’ve been obsessively working on a new to me (quite old) pleating style. Here is some of the info on my success so far. I primarily focus on German clothing styles from the early …

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A prayer said once is an event. Repeated across the day, it becomes a practice that holds.

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Another blog post on that Thalbach Segen that I wrote about last week -- a "blessing" to be performed by the Sister during the mass. This gives the second half, and an assessment of how she works through spatial acts, equivalences, stacking of salvic things, and completeness articulated through binaries. She is creating whole-world protection for herself. Nifty!

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I transcribed and translated a Catholic Segen, a kind of activating prayer, from the 16thc Thalbach prayerbook. Here I provide Part I and an assessment of *how* the prayer works

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I wrote a (short) thing! Blog post on the surprising absence of smell from the multisensory details covered in memorial endowments in early modern Bregenz

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I wrote a thing! This is my first extended assessment of Vorarlberg prayerbooks, focused on prayers "before" the image of Mary

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I've been writing blog posts about some of the interesting prayers from the Thalbach prayerbook, a 16thc manuscript probably copied by a Tertiary sister in the Bregenz convent -- nearly 300 pages in a single hand. These prayers, I'd argue, give an important glimpse into 16th c Franciscan spirituality. Today's contribution: a prayer on Mary's sorrows as redemptive

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So, another blog post exploring the Brand (Vorarlberg, Austria) Parish Church frescoes of the early 16th century.

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Today's blog post explores the 1507 Frescos from Brand's Parish Church in Vorarlberg, Austria, and offers a new identification of the three saints in one of the panels.

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