Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry - LIMBOURG brothers (Herman, Jean, Paul) - WGA
Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry by LIMBOURG brothers (Herman, Jean, Paul)
Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry by LIMBOURG brothers (Herman, Jean, Paul)

Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry

by LIMBOURG brothers (Herman, Jean, Paul), Manuscript (Ms. 65), 294 x 210 mm

This remarkable image on folio 14v depicts a subtly graduated painting of Anatomical Man, the front and partial, mirrored back view of a nude youth standing with the seven planets in a mandorla, which in turn is framed by an almond-shaped border containing the signs of the zodiac.

The zodiac surrounding Anatomical Man is a notable mediaeval pictorial invention, and was fully developed in the 13th century. It represents the belief that man is a microcosm, and therefore the reflection of the macrocosm, of the order in the universe as a whole.

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