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Unknown Miniaturist, German (active c. 1200) |
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The Book of Divine Works By Hildegard of Bingen |
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circa 1200 date QS:P571,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium | illumination on parchment | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 345 mm (13.58 in); width: 160 mm (6.29 in) dimensions QS:P2048,345U174789 dimensions QS:P2049,160U174789 |
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institution QS:P195,Q18596252 |
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Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork reference_wga QS:P973,"http://www.wga.hu/html/zgothic/miniatur/1151-200/3german/07g_1150.html" |
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JPEG file comment | MINIATURIST, German
(active c. 1200) The Book of Divine Works By Hildegard of Bingen c. 1200 Illumination on parchment, 345 x 160 mm Biblioteca Statale, Lucca The best-known religious woman of the twelfth century was Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). She joined the double monastery of Disibodenberg in the Rhineland as a child and became the abbess of its community of nuns. In 1147 she experienced a vision that caused her to leave Disibodenberg and set up her own community, solely of nuns, at Rupertsberg near Bingen in the Rhineland.Hildegard was a cultured woman of wide learning: she composed music, was a prodigious letter-writer and wrote texts on medicine and herbalism. However, she was best known in her time for her visions, which were set down in writing and illustrated by the nuns of her community. The two books of Hildegard's visions are entitled Know the Ways of God (lost since 1945) and The Book of Divine Works. The first illustration to the Book of Divine Works represents the Vision of Divine Love, who holds the Lamb of God, and tramples upon Discord and the devil. This abstract concept is embodied in the traditional form of a young woman.. Her face is bright red, a colour associated in the twelfth century both with divine love and the element of fire, and from the top of her head emerges the face of an old man. Below the illustration is a small vignette of Hildegard writing down her visions on wax tablets with the assistance of the nun Ricardis; to the left her confessor and life-long friend, the monk Volmar, copies the text into a book. The manuscript at Lucca is an early thirteenth-century illustrated copy of Hildegard's work. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 8 minutes):<BR><A HREF="#" onClick="w=window.open ('/music1/12_cent/hildegard_bingen_spiritui_sancto.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350');w.opener=this;w.focus();return true"><B>Hildegard of Bingen: O Spiritui Sancto</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE>
Author: MINIATURIST, German Title: The Book of Divine Works By Hildegard of Bingen Time-line: 1151-1200 School: German Form: illumination Type: religious |
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