r/Medievalart

The cup was made for the French royal family at the end of the 14th century, and later belonged to several English monarchs before spending nearly 300 years in Spain. It has been in the British Museum since 1892. Much the most prominent decoration on the cup is the cycle of scenes from the life of Saint Agnes.

This cup was explicitly mentioned in the 1901 short story A Jubilee Present by E. W. Hornung, where A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief steals it, keeps it for a while and then sends it to Queen Victoria as an anonymous Jubilee present.

On the night of August 15, an as-yet-unidentified gang of thieves stole Antonello da Messina's Polyptych of San Gregorio and a double-sided panel depicting the Madonna and the Pietà, also attributed to the artist, both housed at the Regional Interdisciplinary Museum of Messina. The works, of inestimable artistic value and worth several tens of millions of euros, were removed from their supports, and the armored case protecting the panel was forced open.

Everything suggests a heist meticulously planned by a gang of experts, yet it remains unclear why two of the works were abandoned on a low outer wall of the museum during the getaway: the two polyptych panels depicting Saint Benedict and Saint Gregory the Great. These very works, spared by the thieves, could potentially contain clues useful for identifying them, and investigators are not ruling out any lead at this time.

The theft has further heightened attention on the issue of museum security, given that it emerged that, despite the alarm going off and the video surveillance system capturing the theft as it unfolded, the four security guards present at the site noticed nothing until a passerby reported having found the Antonello da Messina works propped against the low wall outside the museum.

Credits: https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cronaca/2026/08/18/il-furto-di-opere-antonello-da-messina-in-arrivo-unazione-disciplinare-per-i-custodi_7d583cda-08d6-419c-b18f-f8c79dd6b776.html

https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/arte-moderna/2026/08/furto-di-antonello-da-messina-mistero-tavole-abbandonate/

If you want to see more of my artworks and commisions: https://www.instagram.com/funeral.cosmico

It’s a Victorian drawing based on a medieval manuscript. In my heart it’s my precious orange girl cat who, in her heart, believes she’s a ferocious lion.

Really thrilled to finally join the club with a medieval woodcut-inspired tattoo done just yesterday!

It refers to Halley’s Comet appearing very close to Earth in 1066. The sketch is a combination of motifs from later engravings of different periods brought together by the artist.

The lines are all squiggly on request so that they look more like a woodcut print after healing.

What do you guys think?

I saw this in the group and I had to have it

The Hours of Catherine of Cleves (Morgan Library and Museum, now divided in two parts, M. 917 and M. 945, the latter sometimes called the Guennol Hours or, less commonly, the Arenberg Hours) is an ornately illuminated manuscript in the Gothic art style, produced in about 1440 by the anonymous Dutch artist known as the Master of Catherine of Cleves. It is one of the most lavishly illuminated manuscripts to survive from the 15th century and has been described as one of the masterpieces of Northern European illumination.[1][2] This book of hours contains the usual offices, prayers and litanies in Latin, along with supplemental texts, decorated with 157 colorful and gilded illuminations. Today, both parts of the manuscript that forms this book are housed at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.

Who would you add to this list?

Here's one opinion:

https://hilarywhite.substack.com/p/why-didnt-medieval-artists-know-what

What's yours?

i was going insane trying to draw the labyrinth lady so i took away her skin privileges lol

ouch wtf happened to the quality

Partly custom, partly based on “The expusion from Paradise” by Hans Holbein and “Miroer Salutaire” by Guy Marchant