Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Third Day: Creation of the dry land / Creation of plants
God the Father / As creator
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / Manuscripts / French translation of Jean de Vignay / Rennes, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 266 (Follower of the Polycratic Master and Artist under Flemish influence, c1400) / fol. 1-99
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 34: De Quadragesima

Further details

The image could show God as creater or more specifically the creation of the plants, but the significance in the context of this chapter of the Legenda aurea is not clear.

Artist or creator

Polycratic Master (active in Paris 1372-1395) (follower)

Date

1400 (circa)

Location

Rennes, Bibliothèque municipale, 266

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 63ra.

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