October 06, 2008
Medieval Imaginations
is a site from Cambridge which provides a large collection of medieval images depicting episodes from the English mystery plays. There's a zippy interface enabling you to zoom in and scroll around.
In a few cases complete cycles of mystery plays have survived, and in recent times these have been revived in some places.
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Weighty read, Plegs but very interesting. Will have to take this in small, elegant doses.
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Exquisite craftsmanship. One wonders what else could have accomplished had the artists not been restricted by custom to biblical themes.
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My kind of link. Partly because I aspire to update my imagination from Dark Ages to medieval.
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Absolutely beautiful. Many days' worth of stuff to browse round here. Thanks, Pleggy.
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Bookmarked! I love seeing how different artists interpret the same scene. My favorite so far is this Baptism of Christ. The water! THE WATER!
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David Hasselhoff appears to the shepherds Also, TUM, that one's great. I love the baptism-with-fish idea. [I know it's symbolic, but still.]
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Looks more Walken than Hasselhoff to me, but that could just be the hair.
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Denis Leary appears to the shepherds.
... or maybe Willem Dafoe.
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He's got sort of a Willem Dafoe thing goin' on, too.
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I see Dylan Baker.