11-06-2017, 09:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-06-2017, 09:59 AM by davidjackson.)
Surely those things people are standing on in the second frame are You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
The Ripley scroll tradition is of course very symbolic (that's the whole point - it depicts the process of making the elixir of life) and your depiction above gives it a slight Renaissance tint. Those people in the bartizans seem to represent the different professions of knowledge (monk, alchemist, doctor, possibly a noble, etc) in their ivory towers of knowledge but excluded from the true garden of Eden with its original Tree of Knowledge. But the original talks of surrounding the serpent of knowledge with walls to prevent it from escaping (ie alchemical care in transmuting materials). Anyway. If we get talking on the symbology we'll be here all day
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The Ripley scroll tradition is of course very symbolic (that's the whole point - it depicts the process of making the elixir of life) and your depiction above gives it a slight Renaissance tint. Those people in the bartizans seem to represent the different professions of knowledge (monk, alchemist, doctor, possibly a noble, etc) in their ivory towers of knowledge but excluded from the true garden of Eden with its original Tree of Knowledge. But the original talks of surrounding the serpent of knowledge with walls to prevent it from escaping (ie alchemical care in transmuting materials). Anyway. If we get talking on the symbology we'll be here all day
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