medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I tried to post this to Medart-L but it kept bouncing. The I realisied that
Lynn had posted this to Medieval Religion tooo, so here is my belated
contribution.
> My guess is that it is something that the illuminator has copied and
>>> misunderstood from a similar source. Looking at the British Library
>>> image that was posted, for example, you can imagine how a similar
>>> image of a bridge, >> perhaps drawn in a steeper perspective, could
>>> mutate into your structure.
>>> Alternatively, it could be that the illuminator copied an image of a
>>> church or basilica in cut-away perspective (a bit like a modern
>>> architectural section drawing, and quite common in 14thC and 15thC
>>> painting), and again misunderstood it. The quality of the image is
>>> consistent, I think, with its being a misunderstood copy of something
>>> else.
Laura
>>>
>
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From: "Marjorie Greene" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 09 February 2007 20:53
Subject: Re: Query about an image
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> ">It would be useful to know the liturgical or other devotional context in
> which this illumination appears. Has the book in question no formal
> description that could be divulged to those who have been asked to assist
> on this matter?"
>
> The book in which this image appears is a psalter and the psalm in
> question is "Dixit Dominus Domino..." I don't remember the number
> off-hand. The matter seems to have been dropped as an insoluble problem.
> One person suggested it was a (very common) incident of the illuminator's
> copying something he didn't recognize or understand. Since the image is
> Trinitarian, I doubt there would be any Marian connections and no one has
> suggested such yet. Aqueduct has been popular but how does this fit in
> with the substance of the psalm or Trinitarian theology? And an aqueduct
> that goes nowhere and has no source, doesn't seem to slope, etc, etc...
> Also popular has been the idea of blending of OT and NT themes, with a
> church at the Father's right hand and the Tent of Meeting at His left, the
> strange structure being the artist's bizarre notion of what it looked
> like. But these are all hypotheses for which there is no hard evidence.
> MG
>
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