Blemmyes are mythical creatures without a head, with their facial features on their chest. Blemmyes are said to occur in two types: with eyes on the chest or with the eyes on the shoulders. Epiphagi, a variant name for the headless people of the Brisone, is sometimes used as a term referring strictly to the eyes-on-the-shoulders type.
Below are some images of Blemmyes. I believe some of these illustrations are medieval but they were floating around on the internet without info, so if you know when/where something is from please let me know.
Alexander encounters the headless people —Hisotria de preliis in French, BL Royal MS 15 E vi, c. 1445.1460 Livres des Merveilles du Monde1377 manuscript of Secrets de l’histoire naturelle 13th-century bestiary
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Today, draw/paint/sculpt/collage/sew a blemmyes, or a family of blemmyes. Make blemmyes until you don’t want to make blemmyes any more. Enjoy!
I was interested in learning how to better see and describe what makes Charity Baker’s drawings and paintings so captivating, and she gave me a list of her teachers from the New York Studio School. Goldmine! I posted drawings by her teacher Barbara Grossman yesterday. Today I found drawings by Stanley Lewis. Although the two …
I have a guest V. Note today from our printmaking instructor Nikki Barber. Back in April 2020, Nikki interviewed Sam Davidson, of Davidson Galleries in Seattle. Nikki asked Sam about his favorite works in the Davidson collection. This is a delightful interview about a variety of printmaking artists around the globe, with interesting work I …
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30SAL Challenge: Blemmyes
Blemmyes are mythical creatures without a head, with their facial features on their chest. Blemmyes are said to occur in two types: with eyes on the chest or with the eyes on the shoulders. Epiphagi, a variant name for the headless people of the Brisone, is sometimes used as a term referring strictly to the eyes-on-the-shoulders type.
Below are some images of Blemmyes. I believe some of these illustrations are medieval but they were floating around on the internet without info, so if you know when/where something is from please let me know.
Today, draw/paint/sculpt/collage/sew a blemmyes, or a family of blemmyes. Make blemmyes until you don’t want to make blemmyes any more. Enjoy!
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