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| Annapolis | • Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College | ||
| Baltimore | • Baltimore Museum of Art | ||
| • Walters Art Museum | |||
| • American Visionary Art Museum | |||
| • Contemporary Museum | |||
| • Peabody Gallery of Art | |||
| College Park | • Art Gallery at the University of Maryland | ||
| Easton | • Academy Art Museum | ||
| Hagerstown | • Washington County Museum of Fine Arts | ||
| Salisbury | • Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art | ||
The Walters Art MuseumCheckmate! Medieval People at PlayJuly 17 – October 10 ,2010
We are all familiar with praying monks, but playing monks? A Book of Hours from Flanders finds them deep in a game of blind man’s bluff, while on the opposite page, peasant boys enjoy a rigorous game of hockey. Such delightful images of play are surprisingly ubiquitous in medieval manuscripts. Neither stodgy nor perpetually pious, medieval people found time for amusement in the margins of their lives and their manuscripts. From peasant boys shirking their winter duties in order to lob snowballs at each other to monkeys gleefully dancing to “Ring around the Rosie,” their antics have come down to us in art. This exhibit explores a sense of whimsy and fun that is uniquely medieval yet remarkably relevant to us today. |
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