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Lovers in the Garden, Manesse manuscript ca. 1300    Red lead was a favorite pigment of Byzantine and Persian illuminators and commonly used in European manuscripts and paintings.    Latin name: Minium for red lead & vermilion. Minium comes from river Minius located in north west Spain.     From the word minium came the Latin verb miniare and then the English miniate and miniature to describe the image.      Chemical name:	  Lead(II,IV)-oxide Medieval Painting, Medieval Love, Courtly Love, Art Medieval, Medieval Music, Medieval Paintings, Different Kinds Of Art, Medieval Life, Early Middle Ages

Lovers in the Garden, Manesse manuscript ca. 1300 Red lead was a favorite pigment of Byzantine and Persian illuminators and commonly used in European manuscripts and paintings. Latin name: Minium for red lead & vermilion. Minium comes from river Minius located in north west Spain. From the word minium came the Latin verb miniare and then the English miniate and miniature to describe the image. Chemical name: Lead(II,IV)-oxide

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Illumanu : Photo Middle Ages Art, Medieval Drawings, Medieval Artwork, High Middle Ages, Medieval Paintings, Medieval Life, Early Medieval, Medieval Manuscript, Medieval Period

This tumblr aspires to become a helpful resource for history (and mainly fashion history) research and focuses primarily on illuminations from medieval and renaissance manuscripts. Note: I am not a professional fashion historian. If you spot any inconsistency or outright fallacy somewhere in the picture descriptions please feel free (or even better, obliged) to let me know!

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