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Click to view high resolution image Title: Philosophy and the Seven Liberal Arts Creator: Description: The personification of Philosophy sits in a small circle at the center of a circular diagram. On her head are three smaller heads representing the subdivisions of philosophy: ethics, logic, and natural philosophy. Seven streams signifying the seven liberal arts flow from her body. Below her, Plato and Socrates write at desks. Personifications of the liberal arts, identified by their attributes and their labels, occupy lobes arranged around this circle. Outside the diagram at the bottom of the page are four male figures writing at desks. The figures are labeled "Poete vel magi"and receive inspiration from black birds that speak into their ears. Source: Wikimedia Commons Rights: Public Domain Subject (See Also): Education Herrad, Abbess of Hohenbourg- Hortus Deliciarum Liberal Arts, Personified as Women Personification Philosophy Geographic Area: France Century: 12 Date: ca. 1171-1194; destroyed 1870 Related Work: Hortus Deliciarum [Garden of Delights] Current Location: Christian M. Engelhardt, "Herrad von Landsperg Abitissin zu Hohenburg" (Stuttgart, 1818), pl. viii Original Location: Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Manuscript Illuminations Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Vellum (parchment); Paint Donor: Female Religious; Herrad, Abbess of Hohenbourg Height/Width/Length(cm): // Inscription: Related Resources: Original MS destroyed 1870; 19th-century tracings and colored lithographs now held in the following: Paris, BnF Ad 144 a fol; Strasbourg, Bibl. et Archives 955; Strasbourg, Fondation de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame, Bureau de l’architecture, Inv. no. 239/II, armoi

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