Decameron Icons

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I have always been fascinated by medieval book art. So I decided to make a few icons out of medieval manuscripts. To make it more interesting, I am choosing not just any manuscripts...

The following icons belong to "The Decameron" by Boccaccio.

This Italian writer and poet is known as the Father of Italian prose. He is regarded as one of the authors to have led the Italian Renaissance. "The Decameron" (1350) is Boccaccio’s most celebrated work. It is a collection of stories told by seven ladies and three gallants as they spend ten days in a Florentine church trying to avoid the plague. Those stories are quite naughty, though the illuminations I found are not.

The pictures are from an Italian manuscript that was made in Ferrara around 1467. It was illuminated by Taddeo Crivelli for Teofilo Calcagnini. It can be found online in the Bodleian Library in Oxford: illuminations.

Comment, credit and enjoy!

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( 41 bookart icons )

The complete text (more than 800 pages) as pdf: The Decameron

More information: The Decameron Web

Crossposted at aesthetic_icons and at my own journal.

Poetry icons!

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As I was re-reading poetry and browsing posticonic (BEAUTIFUL ICONS. *pimpage*), I came to the conclusion that the most perfect combination in the world is deutscheami's bases and... well, a lot of different poems, it turns out. So I spent an hour this afternoon putting the two together with varying degrees of success, and here are some of the better ones.

ALL OF THE BASES UNDER THE LINK ARE FROM posticonic. PLEASE CREDIT THERE. Other credit, as usual, is lovely but optional; commenting is even better.

Teasers:

pretty poetry + pretty bases=match made in PSP

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Ok, no credit needed, comments are good, no hotlinking. There. All in one breath.


I've got 1 Eragon, 1 Holes, 1 Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, 4 Green Rider, and 1 Among the Hidden



teaser:

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