Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Schembartlauf

I came across an excellent article a while back linking Albrecht Dürer's artwork to Nuremberg's  Schembartlauf, a 15th -16th Century pre-Lenten festival similar to Mardi Gras. It led me to a beautiful archive of costume and float designs from the time, subsequently leading me down the google image search rabbit hole. Here's some of my favorite finds:



















1 comment:

apicknell said...

lovely, weird and beautiful!