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Wednesday, July 4, 2007
The Art of Enclosure...
Wienhausen, Cistercian convent, cloister walk with chests
Eberbach, Cistercian monastery, interior
Psalter and Hours of Bonne of Luxembourg
A life-size
arme Christi
, the side wound of Christ, or "the entrance to Christ's heart"
"Paradiesgartlein," Kloster Ebstorf
Silk flowers for an "enclosed garden"
Portable altar, German, ca. 1490, D.C., National gallery of Art
Garden of virtues,
Somme le roi
, London, British Library
Images ~ from
The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany
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