MS 35 Getty Mus illuminations

 Salvete Omnes, 

a quick entry this Thursday  - the Iran-Us& Israel war uncertainty persists, now the ceasefire is to expire on Sunday. Hope peace prevails. I have no hopes on any quick ending of the Ukraine war. 

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 two very interesting illuminations done in a Byzantine style but way to the west,  in the late 1200s early 1300s Sicilian Kingdom  milieu. 

The Kingdom became the part of the House of Aragon realms as the Reino de Trinacria, starting with the Italian Vespers of 1282AD and the war that followed between Pedro III de Aragon, and then his sons Alfonso III de Aragon, Jaime II de Aragon & Federico II de Sicilia  and Charles I d'Anjou, his successors Charles of Naples & Roberto il Saggio and their allies, the French kings Philip the Bold & Philip the Fair, Papal forces (the Pope even proclaimed the crusade against the Aragonese) etc. The war  took away the  Christian forces from aiding the last defenders of the Crusader Kingdom in the Holy Land. 

The two miniatures from the illuminated manuscript Book of Old Testament Prophets  held at the Getty Museum. 

Museum description 

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Death of Sennacherib, king of Assyria Museum description 

Interesting article on the power of the barons within the XIV century Sicily.

Some of the royal protagonists of the war in Sicily and Spain - 

The peace of Caltabellotta, ending the war, also left unemployed Roger de Flor and the  mercenary soldiers of the Catalan Companies aka Almogavars, and this very successful mercenary commander took his  6,500 Almogavars into the war in Anatolia and Greece, where the  Byzantine Empire fought against the growing power of the Ottoman Turks. But that is another story.

Valete