Allegory of Winter by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, fresco at the Palazzo Publico in Siena, c. 1338-1340
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Snowballs have always been fun to make and play with, and while the northeast is being battered by wind, sleet, snow, ice, and rain, here’s a few paintings of snowballs and snowball fights from the Medieval era. Our past homosapiens weren’t as dull and eternally plague-ridden as many people think! In one of the images below, even the king and his lords and ladies indulge in a little snowball fight!
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Book of hours, second quarter of the 16th-century
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Climate snow and ice, Tacuinum Sanitatis c. 1390-1400
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Conrad, age ten, plays in the snow, in the Schwartz Trachtenbuch, 1561
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Details from the January fresco at Castello Buonconsiglio, c. 1405-1410
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The Census at Bethlehem by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566
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On Left: December, the Book of Hours of Adélaïde de Savoie, c. 1460-1465
On Right: Details from the January fresco at Castello Buonconsiglio, c. 1405-1410
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(via Retronaut)
Love it. Let it snow let it snow!