Das ptolemäische Weltbild und die mittelalterliche Ikonographie

Author

Śnieżyżska-Stolot, Ewa

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

German

Source

Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte. 1993, Vol. 46-47, 699-713, 4 ill.

ISSN

0083-9981

Abstract (en)

Examines the constellations and their varied pictorial forms associated with the months and the signs of the zodiac in medieval calendars. Notes the frequent close connection between such depictions and the iconography of virtue and vice. Explores in particular the association of the seven deadly sins with animals of the zodiac, and discusses this iconography in the context of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Finally reflects on medieval astrological iconography in connection with the survival of antiquity, the scholastic development of memory training, and the theory of archetypes.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Pictorial arts -- Manuscript illumination
• Calendars
• Manuscript illumination
• 1100-1500
• Medieval
• Iconography
• Zodiac
• Astrology
• Seven deadly sins
• Constellations
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, ca.1340-1400

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Enluminure
• Calendrier
• Enluminure
• 1100-1500
• Moyen Age
• Iconographie
• Zodiaque
• Astrologie
• Péchés capitaux
• Constellations
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, v.1340-1400

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00348243

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