God's compass and 'Vana Curiositas': scientific study in the Old French 'Bible Moralisee.'.
From: The Art Bulletin
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Date: 3/1/1998
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Author: Tachau, Katherine H.
The frontispiece of the Old French Bible moralisee depicting God, compass in hand, creating the world, has come to represent the fruitful interaction of learned science and theology in the High Middle Ages. This assessment of the painting's meaning derives from its treatment as a freestanding painting of a divine Architect rather than as the first image in an illuminated codex with deliberate iconographic and textual messages. This essay restores the manuscript context, reading its images and ...
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