Medieval candle

Make an authentic medieval coil candle from scratch with beeswax and DIY candle wicks!

An unknown lantern from Järvsö in Hälsingland, Sweden. In the Hälsinglandsmuseum collection there is a lantern in metal, HM5109. This lantern appeared in a search at DigtialtMuseum site, when …

Medieval candle making machine

1485-1490s lantern

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Rogier van der Weyden, Francesco d'Este, ca. 1460; oil on wood, 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. See the entire painting here. During a recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art I began to look at the gestures of hands, seeing how their movement and what they held expressed feelings and told a story, sometimes more eloquently than the face portrayed. In the examples I found, mainly of Netherlandish painting, the hands are sensitively rendered, and a secondary focus of the composition. In the portrait…

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In the heart of Trastevere , along Via Del Moro , a queer phrase engraved on top of a small artisan's workshop may catch your eye: POLVERE DI TEMPO (powder of time.)

We envision what it must have been like to illuminate one’s home before electricity. The evening’s gloom thickened and the room’s furnishings cast their long shadows from the dyin…

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