Images for Costumers and illuminators: An Online Gallery of Religious Art

As you plan your garb, where do you find period images?  When you're getting ready to illuminate a scroll, where do you turn for inspiration?  Here's a wonderful site with lots of period art:

Christus Rex:  A Fine Art Image Gallery

You'll find famous works from artists like Fra Angelico, Bellini, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Giotto and Masaccio - the list reads like a "Who's Who" from your college art history classes.

Costumers:  To see an example of a painting with great period headcoverings and what appears to be an intricately embroidered sleeve, check out Bellini's Presentation at the Temple.  Here's how to get there:

• http://www.christusrex.org/www2/art/gallery.htm
• Scroll down and click on "Giovanni Bellini" (under "Artists")
• Click on the first painting (Presentation at the Temple).

Isn't that beautiful? Such masterful presentation of complicated folds of cloth, and lovely depictions of both garb and faces.

Illuminators:  To see an example of a procession which might inspire a scroll, go to:

• http://www.christusrex.org/www2/art/gallery.htm
• Scroll down and click on "Ambrogio Lorenzetti" (under "Artists")
• Click on the last painting (Effetti del Buon Governo, Detail).

I just love the queen's weird saddle and the harness on the horses.  I can so see using some of these elements in a scroll for an equestrian award, can't you?