Evanescent art that isn't

[sartorias]

Thanks to green_knight for this link to a twelfth century boy's doodlesI've always loved these brief glimpses of real people. A treasured memory is the front leaves of a very battered and dull Latin historical treatise aimed at schoolboys, printed in the early 1600s, on which some unknown boy had sketched out different styles of doublets. He'd also practiced

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[sovay]

The thing I love about doodles, marginalia, and the like is the seeming evanescence: someone sparked to the impulse to sketch that moment, that mindset, often at the edge of a work of art meant to endure, dedicated to high purpose. But it didn't vanish.

Yes. Thank you so much for these!

[sartorias]

Thanks for looking!

[delurker]

These are so cool! Thanks for the links.

[sartorias]

:-)

[delurker]

I don't comment much on your posts, but you have many interesting links and discussions which I enjoy reading. :)

[sartorias]

Hey, thanks! This is a great way to start the morning.

[handworn]

Do you remember anything about the book of monks' marginalia? Maggie has a birthday coming up, and back before going the ministry route was a grad student at Penn specializing in medieval monasteries (and perhaps nunneries as well).

Speaking of which, you should definitely check out Sarah Dunant's latest historical, Sacred Hearts, set in a nunnery in Ferrara in 1570. We got it out of the library and Maggie and I both loved it.

[sartorias]

The book was stolen nearly twenty years ago, so all I remember is the yellow paper of the cover, alas.

Thanks for the recco--will look for it.