This is a Flemish book of hours, late 15th century.You can check it out here, in this thread some of the best illustrations.They’re awesome, showing such detailed depiction of daily life back then. In this article I describe the image before I show it, so the picture in question can be found below the text. … More Art review: Flemish book of hours (1400s)

This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Still no proper winter here, so let’s look at another old Dutch ice painting to get a little bit of badly needed winter atmosphere.Another one … More Art review: ‘Ice Skating in a village’ by Hendrick Avercamp (ca. 1610)

This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Look at those filthy medieval people who never bathed or washed and who thought bathing was dangerous and bad. Look at them… er… having a … More Art review: Bathing scene from the Hausbuch von Schloss Wolfegg (c. 1480)

This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Just discovered this painting on wikipedia, never seen it before, first showed up in 2023 in an auction, so it’s pretty unknown.It is a Dutch … More Art review: Dutch bathhouse scene, unknown artist (1500s)

This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Let’s do another painting review. I’m just going to look at a nice old painting and share what I notice. This time perhaps the most … More Art review: Hunters in the Snow, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)