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Title:
Liberal Arts of the Quadrivium
Creator:
Description:
Depicted from left to right in this Ottonian illumination: Musica holding a stringed instrument; Arithmetica holding a counting strand; Geometria at a podium, holding a rod and geometric shapes on an abacus; and, Astrologia, standing beneath the sun, moon and stars, holds two burning torches and bears a gold cross on her tunic.
Source:
Wikimedia Commons
Rights:
Public domain
Subject
(See Also)
:
Liberal Arts, Personified as Women
Musical Instruments
Personification
Geographic Area:
France
Century:
9
Date:
ca. 845
Related Work:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Current Location:
Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Class.5, fol. 9v
Original Location:
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Manuscript illuminations
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Vellum (parchment); Gold; Silver
Donor:
Height/Width/Length(cm):
13.5 cm/16.5 cm/
Inscription:
In rustic capitals above each corresponding figure: MUSICA - ARITHMETICA - GEOMETRIA – ASTROLOGIA
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