Art sized for 8" x 10" framing on pergamenata using gouache, 23K shell gold, and India ink.

The Varangian Guard (Miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes, c. 1150). Museum: Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid.

A map of the Holy Land attached to a pilgrimage guide within a chronicle narrating the first Crusade (Gesta Francorum Iherusalem expugnatium) in a manuscript dated to 1106-09; Saint Omer, Bibl. d’Agglomeration de Saint Omer, MS 776, fols. 50v-51r © BAPSO). This map is considered the earliest copy of its kind.

A wooden bread pele. The Pelican in Her Piety design is original art inspired in a hybrid style of the Viking-age art styles of Urnes and Ringerike. Wood burned art outline and text. Gouache and 22K shell gold for color. Sealed with beeswax and paraffin mix.

Inspiration: IBN BUTLÂN , Tacuinum sanitatis, Author-Ibn Butlan. Original title-Taqwīm as Si a (Arabic) Publication date/place: 11th century / Publication place-Baghdad under Abbasid Caliphate

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/121148/btvlb105072169/fl34.item

Art 8" x 10" on pergamenata using gouache, 23K shell gold, and India ink

Art 8" x 10" on pergamenata using gouache, 23K shell gold, and India ink.

Liber de simplicibus, 1450s - Manuscript (Lat. VI. 59), Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice

https://www.wga.hu/html_m/zgothic/miniatur/1451-500/2italia4/index.html

Art 8" x 10" on pergamenata using gouache, 23K shell gold, and India ink.

Aquarius Aquarius, illumination from:

Book of Hours, MS G.14 fol. 1v - Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts - The Morgan Library & Museum 

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