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MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Cycles / Textiles / Bamberg, Cope of St Henry II (so-called 'Sternenmantel,' Regensburg, c1020) / Religious images / Virgin Mary and St John
Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Cycles / Textiles / Bamberg, Cope of St Henry II (so-called 'Sternenmantel,' Regensburg, c1020) / Individual constellations / Orion (tentative)
Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Southern hemisphere / Orion / Single figure

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Virgin Mary / Iconography of the Virgin Mary / Virgin alone / Full length

Further details

Baumgärtel-Fleischmann suggests that the figure was only interpreted as Virgin Mary at the 15th-century restauration and refers to the suggestion that the figure was originally supposed to depict Orion

Artist or creator

Regensburg

Date

1020 (circa)

Location

Bamberg, Domschatz

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Elizabeth O'Connor, The Star Mantle of Henry II, PhD Columbia 1980, pp. 120-125; Renate Baumgärtel-Fleischmann, Der Sternenmantel Kaiser Heinrichs II. und seine Inschriften, in: Epigraphik 1988, ed. Walter Koch, Wien 1990, 105-125, p. 118

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