"pinnacles in panoply,
pointing in air ... verily it seemed /
A castle cut out of paper..."
An illuminated painting
of a castle very reminiscent
of Hautdesert, from the
Tres Riches Heures
of the Duc de Berry
(c. 1415).
Source: Michael
Camille, Gothic Art: Glorious Visions
(New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1996), p. 69
A garden of courtly lovers
painting c. 1500,
from a manuscript of Le Roman de la Rose.
Source: Paul
Anbinder, ed., Renaissance Painting
in Manuscript (New York: Hudson Hill, 1983), p. 52
Sacred history considered in
terms of the contemporary
moment (cf. the Second Shepherd's Play): a manuscript
illustration depicting the building of Noah's Ark (c. 1423)
Source: Janet
Blackmore, The Illuminated Page
(Toronto: Toronto UP, 1997), p. 169
Petrarch and Laura, as
imagined by an artist illustrating
a late 15th century edition of the Rime Sparse.
Source: Janet
Blackmore, The Illuminated Page
(Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1997), p. 211
A Petrarchan moment
illustrated as Desire quite literally
seizes the heart of the Lover in this illustration from a
15th century allegorical romance.
Source: King
Rene's Book of Love, with an introduction
by F. Unterkircher (New York: Braziller, 1980), folio
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