rennaissance painters: what is a baby? a small man?
every time i see this post it’s accompanied by a different horrifying painted man baby
In the Detroit Museum of Art there’s a neat room where they have paintings from the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries along with plaques explaining the transition in European art from “manbaby” to an actual, somewhat realistic child.
According to those plaques, society’s general feeling about children was that they were sinful, cruel, unchristian things which had to be taught how to act like their betters, the adults. Because of this, the people paying for portraits of their children generally requested that the children be given the appearance of an adult, so that they would be visually associated with being a kind and proper individual. As we progressed out of the Byzantine era people’s opinions changed and the innocence of youth was seen as a desirable thing, so the depiction of children shifted to make them appear more cherubic.
… Though the article covers a broader time period and therefore explains more about how the Medieval period caused society to think up something as weird as a “Manbaby” in the first place.
There is an essence of timelessness when it comes to libraries and books. Even with the modern marvels of human technology, e-books, audio books, libraries have still preserved the atmosphere of exercising and feeding the human mind with rich text and pages of storytelling. These great feats of architecture we have featured below are the integration of great design and the age old love of ancient yellow pages that have the history of the world etched in them.
The priceless treasure trove of great minds, dreamers and scholars are documented in these buildings which have been designed and built with great care in order to make them stand forever as a monument over these articles of importance like no other.
The libraries below have become an enduring tribute to impeccable design; the best décor and space construction, and art are ingrained into the floors and ceilings and wood panelling. Some of these studies have been built to attract not only readers eager to ponder over pages of food for thought, but to keep the spirit of young minds eager to see the enchanting presence of a library no digital book can recreate.
When that unique smell of worn out books, dust mingled with sunny afternoons wafts through the stone cracks of these majestic structures, people once again are transported back to the classic charm of an intimate moment spent with a satisfying story in the solitude of a hall crammed with books to the ceiling.
The National Library Of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Biblioteca Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
The Admont Library, Admont, Austria
George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, Usa
St. Florian Monastery, Austria
Bibliothèque Nationale De France, Paris, France
Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-generaal Den Haag Iii, Netherlands
Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria
Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, Portuga
The City Libary, Stuttgart, Germany
The Iowa State Law Library, Iowa, USA
The Oberlausitzische Library Of Science, Gorlitz, Germany
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, Connecticut, USA
The Old Public Library Of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève, Paris, France
New York Public Library
Walker Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Vennesla Library, Vennesla, Norway
Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, France
St John’s College Library, Cambridge, UK
The Library Of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA
Technical University “gheorghe Asachi” Library, Iasi, Romania
The Great Library Of The Reformed Church College Of Sarospatak – Sarospatak, Hungary
i dont think american filmmakers realise how huge london is, because sure you have the london eye and houses of parliament but when you say ‘london has fallen’ what??? so the nandos in catford is in flames? the tesco in peckham has descended into chaos? wtf??
