Art of the Month
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the center of the image is lit a bright star that symbolizes the divine light.
Seven golden carriages surround him and astronomical planetary signs identify it
as the heavenly bodies: sun, moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and a
star stands for the fixed-star sphere. The appearance of a small star under each
car bears the look, each one placed below the figures. Along the edge of table
top seven women and one man are shown at whose side a writing table gives
information about them. They sit in front of an idyllic mountain scenery and go
about their activities.
The writing table next to him leads in Early New High German language program in
the image. The image is read by an image of Ptolemy from counter-clockwise. In
order of the days that are dedicated to them, then follow female allegories of
the planet.
It begins with the sun. She is dressed in yellow, and kneeling in prayer on the
floor in her lap is a Bible and she directed her gaze to the divine light. This
gesture marks it also as a personification of the Christian virtue of hope.
Beside her, a golden cup. In the background is a field that is ordered again. A
sower goes to his work, he is an attribute of the grammar, the fine arts, the
sun is associated with.



In the center of the image is lit a bright star that symbolizes the divine
light. Seven golden carriages surround him and astronomical planetary signs
identify it as the heavenly bodies: sun, moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter,
Venus, Saturn and a star stands for the fixed-star sphere.