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Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Cycles / Textiles / Bamberg, Cope of St Henry II (so-called 'Sternenmantel,' Regensburg, c1020) / Individual constellations / Virgo
Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Zodiac / Virgo / Single figure / With ear(s) of corn (Spica) / With branch
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Further details
O'Connor suggests that this is the personifcation of the Virginity of Mary, Baumgärtel-Fleischmann that the image originally was supposed to show Virgo and was re-interpreted in a Marian context at the Mid-15th-century restauration
Artist or creator
Date
1020 (circa)
Location
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Elizabeth O'Connor, The Star Mantle of Henry II, PhD Columbia 1980, pp. 135-138; 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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