Giovanni di Paolo's Creation of the world and the tradition of the "thema mundi" in late medieval and renaissance art

Author

Lippincott, Kristen

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Burlington magazine. 1990, Num. 1048, Vol. 132, 460-468, 16 ill.

ISSN

0007-6287

Abstract (en)

Focuses on a predella fragment of 1445 titled The Creation of the World and the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (New York, Metropolitan Museum). Argues that the arrangement of the zodiacal signs and the location of the sun in the cosmological diagram coincide with an established tradition of the thema mundi, an astrological depiction of the Creation of the World. Relates this iconography to doctrine established at the Fourth Lateran Council, and to Church support for theological arguments in favor of the instantaneous Creation.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- Italy
• Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia, ca.1403-1482
• Painting
• Creation of the World and the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
• Metropolitan Museum of Art||New York (NY, USA)
• Predellas
• Italy
• Creation
• Iconography
• Christian iconography
• Zodiac
• Sun
• Cosmology
• Astrology
• Lateran Council (1215)
• Theology

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Italie
• Peinture
• Création du monde et expulsion d'Adam et Eve du paradis
• Metropolitan Museum of Art||New York (NY, USA)
• Prédelle
• Italie
• Création
• Iconographie
• Iconographie chrétienne
• Zodiaque
• Soleil
• Cosmologie
• Astrologie
• Concile du Latran (1215)
• Théologie

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920101-00418455

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