Iconography

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

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 / Mars / Soldiers driving away cattle
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Mars / Soldiers plundering goods
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Mars / Soldiers burning down houses
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Mars / Civilians fighting or murdering each other

SOCIAL LIFE

Professions and trades / Nefarious professions / Murderers
Warfare / Miseries of war / Arson
Warfare / Miseries of war / Pillage / of cattle
Warfare / Miseries of war / Pillage / of household goods

Further details

Detail

Artist or creator

German after
Netherlandish

Date

1470 (circa)

Location

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Cim. 10

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Fritz Saxl, The Literary Sources of the 'Finiguerra Planets,' Journal of the Warburg Institute 2 (1938), pp. 72-74, p. 73, pl. 14a

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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