Showing posts with label visual rhetoric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visual rhetoric. Show all posts

Monday, June 14, 2010

Ways of Seeing #3: Better living through technology!

For your consideration in celebration of the new issue of Signifying nothing:
The Limbourg Brothers.  February, from the Very Rich Book of Hours of the Duke of Berry. c. 1415.  Manuscript Illumination.  Musée Condé, Chantilly.



I won't grade responses this time.

*You will note that the people in the Limbourg Brothers' illumination probably had a great deal to fear, despite the relative security of the  trio in the house.  Note the wild birds eating seed, the broken wagon, and the hole in the roof of their sheep pen.  The machinations of the heavens above them need to be taken into consideration.

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