Funny late 15th c. woodcut

[frualeydis]

While waiting for my mentor to return to his office I'm drinking tea and looking in The prints of Lucas van Leyden and his contemporaries and I found this really amusing late 15th c. woodcut on page 33. It's an anonymous woodcut depicting st. Lydwina (who I had never heard of, Here's her story) falling on the ice while skating. And besides the very cool dutch/flemish headcloths it's really cool to see women skaters in a medieval context.

Edited!
I found the picture on the internet. Here

Comments

[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

You're making me so curious, and then there's no picture in the link. Could you scan it? Pretty please...

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I don't have a scanner unfortunately. Maybe your local university library has the book? It's very nice really.

Eva

[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

I checked. They don't. :-( Is it your own book or from the uni library? If the latter, I might be able to get an ILL for it and ask my mother to send me a photocopy.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's from the university library. The picture is from Johannes Brugman's "The life of St. Lydwina", from 1498, maybe one can find it elsewhere?

Eva

[(Anonymous)]

What I like the most is that they're skating for FUN, not because there's any deeper or practical meaning to the matter. Thanks for posting the link!

Anéa AKA operafantomet