Porn in Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Painting
You usually associated medieval illuminated painting with the conventional religious subjects. The photos below are over a megabit each, so if you click on them, and click again to enlarge them, you get a sense of their extraordinary beauty and observed detail:
Spitz-meester, De Kruisdraging, blad uit het Spitz-getijdenboek, Frankrijk circa 1420. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 57, fol. 172v
This kind of painting is a bit less (usually) concerned with scenes of courtly life and ordinary daily activity, such as in the illuminations in 'Les tres riches heures du Duc de Berry' 1406-1408/9. Those in the second category give a real sense of the every day in the Middle Ages.
With Mardi Gras coming up in Sydney in February, this hood-maker's shop caught my eye:
But there is also a surprising amount of sexual stuff. As Elise Boneau says ('Obscenity out of the Margins - Mysterious Imagery within "Les Cents Nouvelles Nouvelles" ') 'one can find explicit erotic imagery ... stimulated by the proliferation of secular products [manuscripts] commissoned by laymen'.
So lots of hot medieval bedroom action:
and clothes and flashing (however minimal - no risk of getting off on this one!):
and even rimming - the hat with the cross suggested priests got down and dirty (criticism or envy?):
And in sculpture (tho public patronage), big cock groping:
and self-suck:
Now, if these are not deeply satisfying images, how bout these modern equivalents?
The hot modern bedroom action:
Clothed and flashing:
Rimming:
Self-suck:
Love the medieval stuff but I must say, thank god for the digital camera!
Great post! I especially loved the sculptures and the rimming photos!
ReplyDeletelove to see hot rimming and butthole lickers...a musky hole makes me salivate too...more rim shots please
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