Fuck Yeah Medieval Art

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a squirrel! The marginal illustration of a red squirrel brings some light relief to this rather sombre page, which is dominated by a grim illustration of the flagellation of Christ. 

In Britain the red squirrel is an endangered species, as the grey (a native of the USA) has proved more successful. In the middle ages though, the red ruled uncontested. I think this illustration is rather lovely.

The illustration is from a fourteenth century Book of Hours of the use of S.-Arnoul-les-Metz. It is now in the collection of the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

Descent of Christ to Limbo (detail)

1365-68

Fresco

MASTER of Heiligenkreuz

The Death of St. Clare