Original title: Perspective, vision and dream: notes on the plate "Oratory-Laboratory" in Heinrich Khunrath´s Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae
Authors: Purš, Ivo
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Latin Alchemical Literature of Czech Provenance, Olomouc (CZ), 2014-10-16 / 2014-10-17
Year: 2015
Language: eng
Abstract: The study is devoted to an artistic and iconographic significance of fourth engraving of Heinrich Khunrath´s Theatre eternal wisdom (1609) and illustrates the relationship between the art form (central perspective) and alchemical and mystical symbolism of the search of God as aim of alchemical Great Work.
Keywords: alchemy; art history; Heinrich Khunrath; iconography; theosophy
Project no.: GAP405/12/1268 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR
Host item entry: Latin Alchemical Literature of Czech Provenance, ISBN 978-80-244-4851-0

Institution: Institute of Art History AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0258253

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