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review: Image Dictionary of Art: astrology, magic and alchemy: Picture Dictionary of Art 8: BD 8

Matilde Battistini illustrated in the "Picture Encyclopedia of Art Volume 8» astrology Magic and alchemy, "which allegorical figures and symbolic representation are used by the artist to visualize the esoteric disciplines of interpretation. They discussed the first term in astrology, which she associates the tag under "Myth and History", "sky" and "influences of heaven on earth", they split into more terms. These include among others then astronomical didactic poems, the firmament, all zodiac signs that the planet, but also concepts such as macrocosm and microcosm. All terms are carefully explained and it is shown using pictures, such as painters have put those words on the screen.

will proceed in the same way the terms "magic" and "alchemy". The term magic is broken down first into the sub-concepts "Mythical Origins," "The Great topics, performers and practices," "Mind and Body" and "Enchanted places and passageways. These terms are terms such as sympathy, black magic, esoteric figures, etc. assigned. The term "alchemy" are subject to the terms "allegories and personifications," "Nature and its elements," "The Great Work and phases of the work," "emblems", "instruments and persons." These terms correspond again with words such as melancholia, the bone of Ways or the scale.

In painting, the melancholy of a woman with a melancholy, suffering expression that is sometimes surrounded by children at play or even presented as a half-asleep or lost in thought, man. The example of Albrecht Dürer's engraving "Melancolia" Dürer shows how Dürer realized by the term. Time independently of the tilted head, the main feature of the melancholy, there are many objects on the engraving, which correspond with the term. Thus, key and bag attributes of Saturn, the protector of the melancholic and the equipment on the ground, typical tools that a group of people be attributed to the the melancholic temperament are susceptible, as an artist.

The book contains illustrations of many well-known works include a depiction of Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights", which is now referred to as the "strawberry image" because strawberries and cherries are traditional symbols of lust.

very helpful to decrypt specific image metaphors.

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