Iconography

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Zodiac / Capricornus / With planets / Saturn (domicile)
Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Zodiac / Aquarius / With planets / Saturn (domicile)
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / Individual / Saturn / Standing / Not eating children, holding a sickle or a scythe, on crutches
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / Dignities and debilities / Saturn / Domicile (Capricorn and Aquarius)
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Cycles / Prints / German Block-Book, Chiro-Xylographic edition (c1480, Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett)
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Ploughing
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Threshing
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Feeding, keeping or slaughtering pigs
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Craftsmen (Bakers, Carpenters, Potters, Smiths, Tanners)
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Cripples, beggars and almsgiving
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Prison and stocks
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Gallows, execution and suicide

SOCIAL LIFE

Beggars and cripples / Single figure / Cripple (not begging)
Justice and punishment / Execution / Hanging / Gallows with one or more hanged persons
Justice and punishment / Punishment (non-capital) / Stock
Professions and trades / Agricultural / Ploughing
Professions and trades / Agricultural / Swineherd
Professions and trades / Agricultural / Threshing
Professions and trades / Cloth, wool and leather workers / Tanners

Further details

Artist or creator

German after
Netherlandish

Date

1470 (circa)

Location

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Cim. 10

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl, Saturn and Melancholy, London 1964, pl. 38

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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