Medieval candle

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Before alarm clocks existed, people used candle clocks to tell the time and wake up. They would also embed nails into them.

Make an authentic medieval coil candle from scratch with beeswax and DIY candle wicks!

Medieval candle making machine

Rogier van der Weyden, Francesco d'Este, ca. 1460; oil on wood, 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. See the entire painting here. During a recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art I began to look at the gestures of hands, seeing how their movement and what they held expressed feelings and told a story, sometimes more eloquently than the face portrayed. In the examples I found, mainly of Netherlandish painting, the hands are sensitively rendered, and a secondary focus of the composition. In the portrait…

In the heart of Trastevere , along Via Del Moro , a queer phrase engraved on top of a small artisan's workshop may catch your eye: POLVERE DI TEMPO (powder of time.)

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1485-1490s lantern

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