Hildegard von Bingen : in the heart of god : Liber Divinorum Operum : the Lucca miniatures

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Hildegard von Bingen : in the heart of god : Liber Divinorum Operum : the Lucca miniatures

Title remainder

in the heart of god : Liber Divinorum Operum : the Lucca miniatures

Statement of responsibility

Sara Salvadori ; translations Oona Smyth and Susan Ann White

Creator

• Salvadori, Sara,

Contributor

• White, Susan Ann, (Translator),
• Smyth, Oona,

Author

• Salvadori, Sara,

Translator

• White, Susan Ann, (Translator),
• Smyth, Oona,

Subject

• Christian art and symbolism -- Germany -- Medieval, 500-1500
• Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval
• De operatione Dei (Hildegard, Saint)
• Germany
• Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179 -- Illustrations
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, German
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, German
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany
• Illustrated works
• Pictures
• Theological anthropology
• Theological anthropology
• Visions in art
• Visions in art
• 500-1500
• Art

Genre

• Pictures
• Illustrations
• Illustrated works
• Art

Language

• eng
• ita
• lat
• eng

Summary

"A full reproduction of the medieval composer and visionary's final theological tract, illuminated shortly after her death. Between 1142 and 1174, the German mystic, composer and writer Hildegard von Bingen created three visionary books: Scivias (Know the Ways); Liber Vitae Meritorum (Book of the Rewards of Life); and Liber Divinorum Operum(Book of Divine Works). This latter work{u2014}reproduced in this sumptuous new volume{u2014}consists of a sequence of ten scenes that invites human beings to climb the road of virginitas toward the recomposition of their own selves in union with the divine caritas. The refined miniatures in the Lucca manuscript{u2014}reproduced here with a simple key explaining their symbolic significance{u2014}were produced about 20 years after Hildegard{u2019}s death and provide a masterful illustration of the architecture of her vision. The dialogue with the images from her first work, Scivias (published in Skira{u2019}s Hildegard von Bingen: A Journey into the Images) casts light on the unifying design that connects them. Hildegard von Bingen (1098{u2013}1179) was a German Benedictine nun and polymath. She is renowned as a composer of sacred monophonic music, as well as for her three volumes of visionary theology: Scivias, the Liber Vitae Meritorum and the Liber Divinorum Operum. In recent decades, her music has proved immensely popular with performers of medieval music. In 2012, she was named a Doctor of the Church, one of only four women with that distinction in the Catholic church."--Publisher description

Cataloging source

C3L

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Language note

Text in English; includes English translation of extracts from Liber Divinorum Operum by Hildegard, Saint

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography