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Alchemical Androgyne
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The alchemical androgyne represents the perfect pre-lapsarian unity of male and female principles. This manuscript differs from most other alchemical works inasmuch as its format is predominantly religious and filled with biblical references, and even more importantly, because it represents the alchemical opus as a process whereby the feminine wisdom Sophia must be liberated. Written in seven poetic but scholarly chapters, the treatise traces the liberation of Sophia from confinement by way of the alchemical phases of transformation.
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Wikimedia Commons
Rights:
Public domain
Subject
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Alchemy
Gender
Nude
Geographic Area:
Germany
Century:
15
Date:
ca. 1420
Related Work:
"Aurora consurgens," a fifteenth century illuminated manuscript with an alchemical treatise.
Current Location:
Zurich, Zentralbibliothek, MS. Rhenoviensis 172, frontispiece
Original Location:
Basel, St. Leonhard, high altar
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Manuscript illuminations
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Watercolor
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