God Judging Adam
The Divine as the central motif, with the Horse, the Sun and the Moon, and Fire in a secondary part. From Single sheets.
Key · 4 motifs
The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.
- 1The Divinecentral motif as it reads here: The Judge in the Sun
- 2The Horsesecondary motif
- 3The Sun and the Moonsecondary motif
- 4Firesecondary motif
The picture
An aged God seated in a disc of fire and light points down at Adam, who stands bowed before the flaming horses of the chariot; the Divine as the central motif, the Horse, the Sun and Fire by eye. By eye
Not yet decoded: the key and the sourced notes come with the entry. Until then the motifs above are tagged by eye and said so.
Also carrying the Divine
39 works carry it. The 6 where it is the central motif are here. The symbol.
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
The Holy Trinity
Portavit eum ventus in ventre suo
Da ignem igni, Mercurium Mercurio, & sufficit tibi
Lapis, quem Saturnus, pro Jove filio devoratum, evomuit, Pro monumento in Helicone mortalibus est positus
Aurum pluit, dum nascitur Pallas Rhodi, & Sol concumbit Veneri
Where the detail is the subject
the Horse · the Sun and the Moon · Fire
Each of these is in the picture without being what it is about. Below, one work that is about each.
By the same hand
In the same series
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