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GODS AND MYTHS

Proserpina / Myths / Pluto and Proserpina / Proserpina crowned queen of Hades
Proserpina / Myths / Pluto and Proserpina / Ceres searching for Proserpina / Miscellaneous

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / Manuscripts / French translation of Jean de Vignay / Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fr. 244-245 (Master of Jacques de Besançon, 1480-1490) / Fr. 244
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 37: De Purificatione beate Mariae Virginis (February 2)

Further details

This scene is shown here because according to a sermon of Pope Innocent III quoted in the Golden Legend, the procession with candles on Candlemas came from a torchlight procession of the pagan Roman women in commemoration of Ceres searching for Proserpina.

Artist or creator

Master of Jacques de Besançon (François le Barbier, active c1480-1498)

Date

1480 (circa) - 1490

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 244

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 76r.

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