THE
LANDSCAPE AS METAPHOR and The Moral Landscape
01 The Broad and Narrow Way, ?Schacher, 38 x 42 cms lithograph.
02
from Heinrich Kunrath, Amphitheatrum aternae sapiente
Hanau 1609 There are 21 separate suburbs in the Citadel - to emphasise
the rightness of the one path, only one has a route to the centre which
has barriers and checks of its own.
03 George Withers, A Collection of Emblems, London 1635.
This engraving was designed and executed by William Marshall and was the
basis of many later copies. The landscape teems with moral decisions and
their consequences.
04 Gift handkershief given to a child, c1800 from book
catal. Realms of Childhood , Schiller, New York, 1983.
05 J.D.Mylius,
Opus medico-chymicum, Frankfurt 1618 - 1620. This is
one of the finest and most detailed of the alchemical book illustrations,
almost inpenetrable yet because of the simple device of symmetry allowing
an interpretation of comparisons - Sun/Moon, King Queen,Lion/Stag.
06 from John Bunyan, The Holy War, Made by Shaddai Upon
Diabolus, Alsop, London 1682. "The Towne of Mansoul".
07 The
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