EditorialSaint Giles and the Hind Aegidius (Gilles) with doe, On a pedestal made of pollen it stands with the bent right leg forward and the head tilted to the left. He extends his left hand to the deer standing next to him, who looks up to him and lays a front...
EditorialSt. Francis, Print made by unknown artist, seventeenth century, after Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 15771640, Flemish, Published by John Smith, 16521743, British, between 1681 and 1688, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream, laid paper, Sheet: 6 1/8 ?...
EditorialFranciscus, He stands on a piece of land with his right leg bent forward and shows the insides of his stigmatized hands. It has a large tonsure and wears a jacket with a belt and a hanging cap over an underlay visible at the wrists. On the left, the si...
EditorialSaint Giles and the Hind Aegidius (Gilles) with doe, On a pedestal made of pollen it stands with the bent right leg forward and the head tilted to the left. He extends his left hand to the deer standing next to him, who looks up to him and lays a front...
EditorialInkpot with a Monk in a Pulpit, A five-sided inkpot, from a solid cube of boxwood, shaped like a gothic construction (pulpit?) with buttresses on the corners, between fields with switched arch windows, four-pass friezes and a border of raised fleurons....
EditorialFranciscus, He stands on a ground and holds up the insides of his stigmatized hands. He has tonsure and smiles somewhat. He wears a suit, the sleeves of which are folded back, and a belt. Stigmata in the side and on one of the feet stabbed in sandals.,...
EditorialHoly communion ceremony, 12th century. A priest and altar boy with tonsure giving holy communion to the kneeling congregation in a church. From a manuscript in the Bibliotheque royale. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from...
EditorialSuger, Abbot of Saint-Denis, 12th century. He wears the tonsure, a hooded robe and holds a crosier. From a portrait in a stained-glass window in Saint-Denis. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "French Costumes from King...
EditorialKalpa-sutra Manuscript with 24 Miniatures: Mahavira's Tonsure, c. 1475-1500. Western India, Gujarat, last quarter of the 15th century. Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper; overall: 12.5 x 25.7 cm (4 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.).
EditorialMonk being given tonsure. De similitudinibus. (Detail) A monk being given a tonsure by another monk with a knife. Image taken from De similitudinibus. . Source: Cotton Cleopatra C. XI, f.27v. Language: Latin.
EditorialGames unknown, 14th century. Performers dressed as monks and nuns playing the game of hippas or piggyback wrestling (the monks have blue hair and no tonsure). Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of En...
EditorialHoly communion ceremony, 12th century. A priest and altar boy with tonsure giving holy communion to the kneeling congregation in a church. From a manuscript in the Bibliotheque royale. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from...
EditorialSuger, Abbot of Saint-Denis, 12th century. He wears the tonsure, a hooded robe and holds a crosier. From a portrait in a stained-glass window in Saint-Denis. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "French Costumes from King...
EditorialEcclesiastical rite of tonsure, 15th century. Bishop in mitre, chasuble, dalmatic, alb and maniple, novices accepting the tonsure (haircut) in surtout and stockings. From a manuscript in the Ottobon collection of the Vatican library. Handcoloured illus...
EditorialHell. Golden devils agitate bellows; tiny sinners are roasting in hellfire; some of them with the tonsure of monks; more damned drop into hell in the background.