Xerses phus

2021-10-08 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 33/n
The Book of #Chess (Liber de ludo scacchorum, ca. 1300)
Author: Jacobus de Cessolis
Straßburg: Knoblochtzer, 1483
Woodcuts, touches of watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
#VisualArts #IlluminatedIncunable #woodcut #JacobusDeCessolis1483 #MiddleAges

Xerses phus

2021-09-08 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 20/n
A game of chess
Mirror case
Ivory
French (Paris)
about 1300
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
#chess #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase1300 #MiddleAges

Xerses phus

2021-08-23 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 13/n
Codex Manesse
Written and illustrated between 1304 and 1340
Produced in Zürich, Switzerland
Folio 13r, Markgraf Otto von Brandenburg
Heidelberg University Library, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #CodesManesse #MiddleAges

Xerses phus

2021-08-16 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 10/n
Unknown artist
Apes playing chess
1st half of the 14th century (?)
Naumburg Cathedral, Germany; north side of the east choir
#chess #VisualArts #sculpture #ArchitecturalSculpture #NaumburgCathedral #MiddleAges

Xerses phus

2021-08-06 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 6/n
Albertus Pictor (attr.)
Death playing chess with man
Mural painting
late 1480s
Täby parish church, Uppland, Sweden
#chess #VisualArts #painting #MuralPainting #MiddleAges #AlbertusPictor

Xerses phus

2021-08-02 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 4/n
Buzurgmihr masters the game of chess
Folio from the #Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Author: #Firdausi (ca. 940/41-1020)
Persian manuscript made in Iran or Iraq
ca. 1300-30
Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
#chess #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #MiddleAges

Xerses phus

2021-07-26 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 1/n
Libro de los juegos (Book of games)
commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile
completed in Toledo in 1283
Library of the Monastery of El Escorial, Spain
#chess #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #LibroDeLosJuegos1283 #ChessHistory #MiddleAges