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15-08-2021, 02:47 PM
Well, in the Bamberg Apocalypse the description to folio 28v reads "sitting on a golden bow". So in this case it is probably not a rainbow. But for that the mandorla is often similar to a rainbow.
Christ can also sit inside a mandorla on a rainbow:
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Quote:The frame of a mandorla is often graded in color or sculpturally particularly elaborate (diamond rod, perforated rod); it thus recalls the vision of a rainbow in Ez 1:26-28 EU *.
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Christ can also sit inside a mandorla on a rainbow:
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15-08-2021, 04:30 PM
It's a rainbow, and the rainbow is arranged like a throne.
Interestingly, when the word "throne" entered the English language ca. 1200, it was exclusively used for "the seat of God or a saint in heaven;" You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
It originates from Greek, where the word "thronos" was a seat with a footstool. This explains why the crucial elements of God's throne can so easily be represented by a double rainbow: one for sitting and one for the feet. Interesting in this context is also the "prepared throne", You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
Interestingly, when the word "throne" entered the English language ca. 1200, it was exclusively used for "the seat of God or a saint in heaven;" You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
It originates from Greek, where the word "thronos" was a seat with a footstool. This explains why the crucial elements of God's throne can so easily be represented by a double rainbow: one for sitting and one for the feet. Interesting in this context is also the "prepared throne", You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
15-08-2021, 06:56 PM
The double rainbow and the vesica piscis were design elements used in religious illustrations. They became religious symbols. So using the double rainbow as an example of metonymy is a possibility. The de Pizan example of an empty throne would have been current in the early 1400s.
The VMs is obviously ambiguous, to say the least. The throne is there, but it is empty. It could hardly be more clueless.
Religious tradition and medieval art history would indicate that there should be an image of Christ seated on the double rainbow throne. Religious history, current events of the 1400s, reveals an event of great significance that came to the city of Dijon and involved a similar image of Christ.
The strength of metonymic symbolism, the ability to make the connection between the throne and its 'occupant', to recall the *existence*, let alone the details, of this particular event at Dijon would have been present at that time, but it has - shall we say - faded with the passing centuries. Their reality has long passed and so the throne 'appears' empty.
History, however, sets forth a very specific marker in time and place. It is a result very similar in some ways to the that of the investigation of the Golden Fleece. Two specific historical events within the VMs C-14 dates. Two witnesses to the nature of the VMs.
The VMs is obviously ambiguous, to say the least. The throne is there, but it is empty. It could hardly be more clueless.
Religious tradition and medieval art history would indicate that there should be an image of Christ seated on the double rainbow throne. Religious history, current events of the 1400s, reveals an event of great significance that came to the city of Dijon and involved a similar image of Christ.
The strength of metonymic symbolism, the ability to make the connection between the throne and its 'occupant', to recall the *existence*, let alone the details, of this particular event at Dijon would have been present at that time, but it has - shall we say - faded with the passing centuries. Their reality has long passed and so the throne 'appears' empty.
History, however, sets forth a very specific marker in time and place. It is a result very similar in some ways to the that of the investigation of the Golden Fleece. Two specific historical events within the VMs C-14 dates. Two witnesses to the nature of the VMs.
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