Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Florence, Italy

Notes

• Initial L
   
• This initial is filled with design motifs that appealed to the Renaissance imagination. Along the exterior shaft of initial L is the face of the 'Green Man,' a symbolic figure characterized by a face surrounded by vegetal forms, such as leaves or branches. Having its origins in pagan symbolism, the Green Man suggested rebirth and renewal. The hybrid figure in the center of the initial suggests the mythical figure Chimera, a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with a decorated initial from a service book.
   

Extent

Support

Script

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Devotion
• Illustration
• Illumination
• Fragment

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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