Hi Lu, Anna, et al.--
I'd suggest looking for illustrations in
alchemical texts. This is a little late
(1595), but here are some plates from a
volume digitized at the Univ. of Wisconsin:
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/SpecialCollections/khunrath/thumbs.html
--Linda Duychak
Kohler Art Library/Digital Content Group
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:52:21 -0500
Anna Bigazzi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Lu,
>I was intrigued by your request because I distinctly recollected seing that
>element "in real life"...
>Unfortunatly I was not able to find any reproduction of the medieval and
>Renaissance suns with wavy rays that I remembered, with the
>possible exception of a painting by Arcangelo di Cola da Camerino in the
>John Johnson Collection, Philadelphia. And the photo I tracked down was so
>small that I could not be sure that the rays were wavy...
>However, if you have access to it, there is a marvelous old source of
>pictures in Walter Herdeg's "The Sun in Art: Sun Symbolism of Past and
>Present, in Pagan and Christian Art, Popular Art, Fine Art and Applied
>Art", The Graphis Press, Zurich, Switzerland, 1962.
>Too bad the sun cannot have straight rays, because it would have been much
>easier to find. Think about the collection of sculpted sun faces
>on Bernini's Baldacchino in St Peter's, Rome, just under the entablature...
>The wavy element is wonderfully exploited in relief in the ceiling of the
>Chiesa del Gesu' in Cortona, but it encircles the Name of Jesus and not the
>sun!
>Best of luck ! I hope to see what our colleagues come up with...
>
>Anna Bigazzi
>Art Coordinator
>Mortensen Library Art Library
>University of Hartford
>200 Bloomfield Avenue
>West Hartford, CT 06117
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>>I have an artist looking for images of the sun (in the form of a circle with
>>wavy rays) of the sort in early prints. We're not having much luck, so I'm
>>passing it on to all you wizards out there with the incredible visual
>>memories. Any suggestions?
>>
>>Lu Harper
>>Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
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