A soft enamel pin based on medieval art, with three colours and black plating.
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Product description
A soft enamel pin based on medieval art, with three colours and black plating.
This pin combines some of my favourite features of various dumb lions from medieval bestiaries. It’s easy to attribute their dumbness to bad execution but the truth is a lot more interesting.
Medieval art was governed by compositional devices - predetermined geometric schemes and design motifs that artists would copy and repeat as signifiers of different virtues. Artists were less invested in expressing their own perspective or literal proportions than they were in depicting animals as reflections of human behaviour or divine will.
This dumb lion has the repeated flat patterns, heavily modelled face and little tongue typical of bestiary drawings, along with the squat body and curly hair that signified timidity. It’s interesting to see the strangeness of dumb lions as artistic decisions specific to their era that have dated to the extent that they now look delightfully weird to modern eyes.
Dimensions
45mm wide
Made from
zinc, enamel
Product code
1246957
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