Every day the Met has an Artwork of the Day. About a third of them are pre 1600 works. One of the best things about it is that if you click though it has a lovely zoom feature to really get a good close up view of details.

I started an LJ feed for it last year. It perodicly blanks out past feeds im not sure why.

Here are examples of works from the past month.


Scene from the Life of Saint Nicholas, ca. 1200–1210



Saint Barbara, ca. 1490



Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath, 629–630

Interesting article here on medieval weaponry.

Mods - I will remove if inapproiate or I get too many (and I decide how many is too many) slams. Amusement is far too rare these days.

This morning I read a perfectly lovely post of praise that had found its way into a snark community for lack of a better outlet.  It seems that I was not by any means the only person who had never until then heard of sca_goodness or sca_praise, and so I thought it only right to advertise these communities (again?) here today.

But do remember to write in your award recommendations first...  ;>

There's a new SCA list created a few minutes ago over on Yahoo Groups. Inter-Kingdom, everyone welcome. (I'm not the list owner, just wanted to let people know.)

Link: SCA Recipes

Description from the group sign up page: "This is not meant to replace any existing cooking lists. This group is for recipes of all kinds, but emphasis on recipes for dishes that can be cooked on site, or cooked beforehand and refrigerated/frozen, then reheated on site. This is NOT a medieval recipes group, although period recipes are certainly welcome, as are all non-SCA recipes!"


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