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“Print is Dead”: More Medieval and Early Modern Inspired Woodcuts, With a Second Edition of Henry VIII, HVIIIERS Gonna HVIII

It has been nearly a year since I have posted to my website, but, rest assured, I have continued my engagement with the medieval, early modern, and printmaking worlds. I want to assure you that this website, like print itself, is not dead. You can always find these woodcuts and many others at my Etsy […]

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Posted in Silly Things, Tangents, woodcuts, #WoodcutWednesday, Satire Tagged Conny Catcher, Henry VIII, Middleton, smiling poo emoji, Tudors, Roaring Girl, #WoodcutWednesday, Stephen Batman, wynkyn de worde, witchcraft, early modern, William Shakespeare, Giulio Romano, Francesco Petrarcha, senseshaper, Aretino, medieval, Aretino's Postures, Petrarch, Henry Tudor, Marcantonio Raimondi, Shakespeare, Gutenberg, printmaking, Johannes Gutenberg, Thomas Coryat, Robert Greene, DeDigitizeTheArchive, Elephant, woodcut, Moll Cutpurse

HVIIIers Gonna HVIII: Henry VIII and Other Senseshaper Woodcuts Inspired by the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

While I have not been posting to this blog on early modern vision as regularly as I want, I have been busy making more woodcuts inspired by the medieval and early modern periods. While my Henry VIII woodcut attained some popularity on social media sites not long after I made it, I had yet to […]

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Posted in Tangents, #WoodcutWednesday, Silly Things, woodcuts Tagged prints, Hilary Mantel, early modern, The Tudors, Wolf Hall, medieval, Henry Tudor, Bringing Up the Bodies, renaissance, Sir Thomas More, Birth of Venus, Richard III, Geoffrey Chaucer, Botticelli, Plague Doctor, Sandro Botticelli, woodcut, Durer, Elizabeth I, art, John Dee, Virgin Queen, Henry VIII, Monas Hieroglyphica, Elizabethan, senseshaper, Rosicrucian, Chaucer 1 Comment

The Medieval and Early Modern Meme Menagerie, or, Grumpy Cat is a Time Lord

While working on my previous post on the possible relationship between Richard Pynson’s 1506 Kalender of Shepherdes and William Shakespeare’s Othello, I turned to the sources of the Kalender’s Vision of Lazarus. I checked Pynson against not only the French Compost et kalendrier des bergers, but also against the Ars Moriendi in general and L’Art […]

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Posted in Silly Things, #WoodcutWednesday Tagged early modern, Grumpy Cat, medieval, memes 5 Comments

My Medieval Grumpy Cat meme made it into a Dutch newspaper!

Since I’m in the process of tweaking the new site and format as well as finalizing revisions on two new posts, I thought I would take a break to share that one of my Medieval Grumpy Cat memes found its way into a Dutch newspaper. I am also happy to report that Emir O. Filipović has […]

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Posted in Satire, Silly Things Tagged manuscripts, medieval, Emir Filipovic, Erik Kwakkel, Grumpy Cat 1 Comment

Grumpy Cat Responds to the Medieval Cat-Print Manuscript

-For an update on this post and for links to information about the person who took the original manuscript photo, see this post.   Erik Kwakkel recently popularized an image of a medieval manuscript discovered by Emir O. Filipovic of the University of Sarajevo’s History Department. The manuscript contained the paw-prints of a medieval cat, […]

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Posted in Satire, Silly Things Tagged Erik Kwakkel, Grumpy Cat, manuscripts, medieval 19 Comments

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