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Teresa Pérez-Higuera.
The Art of Time: Medieval Calendars and the Zodiac.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998 (previously published in Spanish, 1997).
ISBN 0297823701;
ISBN-13: 9780297823704.
Hardback, stitch bound.
236x326x25mm.
271pp, colour illustrations throughout.
English.
An unused copy with some shelf wear: the dustjacket is a little scuffed with its edges starting to curl somewhat, otherwise overall very good condition.
This item £16.50
1720g.To measure time and the passing of the seasons has always been one of man’s priorities. Equally, to read significance into various times and seasons, to see the future in the past, has been a preoccupation since man could count. From the early Middle Ages illuminated manuscripts showed the passing of time, for both nobility and peasantry, as a series of images taking the original allegories of the classical world and gradually shading them into images that more directly reflected their own lives. However, the cosmological cycle of the year occupies a central place, and in some cases the use of the Zodiac was a pronounced feature.
The development in the way time was recorded and represented from Roman times to the Middle Ages reflects many of the fundamental changes that were taking place in western Europe. Uniting ancient figurative art with Christian symbols, and classical iconography with the signs of the Zodiac, the resulting patterns, displayed everywhere from church architecture to prayer books, has left a gorgeous heritage of these remarkable scenes of life long vanished.
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