Субботние монстры: Битвы Александра с...
Набрел в Британской библиотеке на великолепный манускрипт Historia de proelis in a French translation (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre) 1420 года, написанный во Франции.
Это один из красивейших манускриптов, которые я видел. Реализм битв, пропущенный сквозь призму фантазии художника заставил меня по новому взглянуть на художественную миниатюру.
Итак, наслаждайтесь
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with horse-headed men
Historia de proelis in a French translation (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre)
Origin France, Central (Paris)
Date c. 1420
Detail of a miniature of Albanians presenting Alexander with a dog, and the dog fighting an elephant and a lion
Detail of a miniature of the meeting between Alexander and the Amazons
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with dragons
Detail of a miniature of Alexander the Great slaying other extraordinary creatures (dragons?)
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with white lions
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with boars and many-handed savages
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with a three-horned beast and other strange animals
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with a hippopotamus-like beast
Detail of a miniature of Alexander driving off elephants with pigs and musical instruments
Detail of a miniature of Alexander encountering strange women of the forest
Detail of a miniature of Alexander talking to the strange women of the forest
Detail of a miniature of Alexander encountering a naked and houseless tribe (the gymnosophists)
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with giants
Detail of a miniature of Alexander burning a wild man
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle against dragons with emeralds in their foreheads
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle against wild bulls
Detail of a miniature of Alexander, in a cage, being carried aloft by griffins
Detail of a miniature of Alexander lowered into the sea in a cask, along with a cat and a cock, at the beginning of chapter 65
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with sword-horned men.
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with sheep-horned dragons
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with one-eyed giants (cyclops)
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with headless men with faces on their torsos (blemmyae)
Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with lion-like beasts
Detail of a miniature of the burial of Bucephalus
Detail of a miniature of Alexander presented with white elephants, at the beginning of chapter 73
Detail of a miniature of a battle with two-headed dragons
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За наводку огромное спасибо mrs_mcwinkie
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