Have you ever wondered what meanings are hidden behind 17th-century still-life paintings? When these artworks were painted, their audience could understand what messages were conveyed at the first glance. However, for a modern audience, these still-life scenes can look like just random supermarket objects. At the Mearto Magazine, we have […]
This two-sided bracteate (c. 975 – 985) dates back from the reign of Harald Bluetooth, famous Viking king of Denmark and Norway. The coins from 10th century Denmark are often called half-bracteates as they are so thin that the stamp on the two sides easily gets mixed up. Harald Bluetooth […]
Consisting from 258 pages, this Book of Hours is probably from Florence and it is on sale at Stockholms Auktionsverk. A book of hours is a Christian devotional book very popular in the Middle Ages. They contain religious texts, psalms and prayers, accompanied with unique decorations that bear witness to the […]