Livre des Proprietes des Choses c1480 T-Shirt

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‘Livre des Proprietes des Choses’ by Barthelemy l’Anglais c. 1480 Manuscript (MS Fr. 9140). Until the advent of Copernicus, all knowledge about the universe had to be made to fit into the framework of the Ptolemaic model in which the Earth was firmly the centre of everything. The illustration on folio 169 of this 15th-century French codex conforms to the Ptolemaic model. The planets followed eccentric patterns of their own, each with its individual crystal sphere, but stayed within the parameters of the Zodiac. Here, in pictorial form, are shown Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Sun and the Moon. Bartholomeus Anglicus (Barthelemy l’Anglais, 1203-72) was a 13th-century scholar of Paris, a member of the Franciscan order. He was the author of the compendium ‘De proprietatibus rerum’, dated 1240, an early forerunner of the encyclopedia.

From the time I was a child I have been intrigued with the patterning of light and the interaction of color. In the course of my life path I fell away from any sense of creative freedom, working from what I thought was expected of me. Through the long process of releasing an imposed belief system and replacing it with my own experiences and truths I have become able, emotionally and spiritually to access my child spirit through my adult educated mind. I am powerfully influenced by the passionate colors of the Italian High Renaissance and the gestural freedom of Impressionism and abstract expressionism. The spirituality of the theories in these genres has also had a great impact on me. In my work I seek to establish the intricate web...

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