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Jan302013

A Visual Feast - Snow in the Middle Ages - (and beyond)

DateWednesday, January 30, 2013 at 12:05PM

Allegory of Winter by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, fresco at the Palazzo Publico in Siena, c. 1338-1340 (click photo for larger image)A Snowball Fight in a Book of hours, second quarter of the 16th-century (click photo for larger image)Details from the January fresco at Castello Buonconsiglio, c. 1405-1410 (click photo for larger image)The Census at Bethlehem by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566 (click photo for larger image)Here are some wonderful images for you to enjoy! The folks of the Middle Ages were well acquainted with snow! See more images like these at Retronaut.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti was an extraordinary Sienese painter whose most brilliant achievement was a fresco series on good and bad government that occupies three walls of the room in the Palazzo Pubblico. A “Book of Hours” refers to an illuminated Christian devotional book that was particularly popular in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages. Castello Buonconsiglio refers to a castle built for defensive purposes on a rocky hill, which was originally home to a Roman fortress.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder is considered by some to be the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century. He is particularly well-known for his witty depictions of peasant life--and is definitely one of the fathers of genre painting.

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