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    Hortus conclusus is a Latin term, meaning literally "enclosed garden". Both words in hortus conclusus refer linguistically to enclosure. It describes...
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    The Madonna on a Crescent Moon in Hortus Conclusus is a 1450s painting by an unknown artist referred to as the “Master of 1456”.: 309,  312  It is held...
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    major themes. In the unicorn series, the hunt takes place within a Hortus conclusus, literally meaning "enclosed garden," which was not only a representation...
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    of Mary, in a "Hunt of the Unicorn Annunciation" (ca. 1500) from a Netherlandish book of hours. For the complicated iconography, see Hortus Conclusus....
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    occasionally appears in art, especially in depictions of Mary in the hortus conclusus. Although the term is rarely used in the religious sense in modern...
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    inventory. A rather rare, late-15th-century, variant depiction of the hortus conclusus in religious art combined the Annunciation to Mary with the themes...
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    the centre, dates back to the very earliest gardens of Persia. The hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" of High Medieval Europe was more typically enclosed...
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    15th century, this pose is very common in images of the Virgin in a hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden", where the Virgin often sits on the flowery grass...
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    other figures. The Virgin placed in an enclosed garden is known as hortus conclusus, and when she is surrounded by female saints it is known as a Virgo...
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    the Baptist adjacent to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem Hortus Conclusus triptych, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Life of Jesus in the New...
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    closing off all but small patches of sky, to give a version of the hortus conclusus or closed garden, a very traditional setting for the Virgin Mary. Saints...
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    centres of illumination by then. Images of the Virgin Mary in her hortus conclusus ("enclosed garden") and the "garden of love", a popular subject in...
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    Annunciation (c. 1500) from a Netherlandish book of hours. In the hortus conclusus, Gideon's fleece is worked in, and the altar at the rear has Aaron's...
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    Gabriel's arrival. Her innocence and virginity is represented by the Hortus Conclusus seen through the fence and the window in the background. Mary is seated...
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    the left panel, looking through a half-open door into the Virgin's Hortus conclusus. The door presents a continuity oddity; although it can be seen opening...
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    Persia. Julie Scott Meisami describes the medieval Islamic garden as "a hortus conclusus, walled off and protected from the outside world; within, its design...
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    factor was a shifting view toward a more "enclosed" garden space (hortus conclusus), a dominant trend in Europe at that time. The open views and vistas...
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    the other three secret gardens. These gardens are derived from the 'hortus conclusus of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque era. In these periods...
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    ideals with the ideas of antiquity: from the confined garden spaces (Hortus conclusus) of the medieval cult of Mary to the open Garden of Eden. According...
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    Garden square Hanging garden (cultivation) Herb gardens Hòn Non Bộ Hortus conclusus Intercultural Garden Keyhole garden Kitchen garden Knot garden Maze...
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    4Q108, 6Q6, fragments including portions of the "Song of Songs". Hortus conclusus Ivory tower The action of the conception is attributed specifically...
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    San Juan de los Lagos, Virgin of Mercy, Virgin of Ocotlán, or the Hortus conclusus and their doctrinal implications. Some of the leading Marian subjects...
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    (1932) Preludio, ritmi e canti gregoriani (1937) Preludio e fuga (1940) Hortus conclusus (1946) Stradivario für 2 Klaviere (1955) Dialogo no.2 für 2 Klaviere...
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    holds the body of her crucified son. The Madonna on a Crescent Moon in Hortus Conclusus by an anonymous painter Leonardo da Vinci, a study of the Head of Madonna...
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    victory over the devil. The lilies and the rose are references to hortus conclusus ("enclosed garden"), and symbolize Mary's love, virginity and purity...
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    name. The name might also be derived from Latin hortus meaning garden, hence the name Hortus Conclusus of the nearby Catholic Convent. Artas is located...
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    Spenser's Faerie Queene. Adonia Arcadia (utopia) Dream world (plot device) Hortus conclusus Lost Gardens of Heligan The Secret Garden J. B. Russell, A History...
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    medieval feature of a smaller walled garden inside the outer one (Hortus Conclusus). It contains many other features from earlier ages which have been...
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  • of a triptych – the mural Athanor and the two sculptures Danae and Hortus Conclusus – at the Louvre in 2007, Kiefer became the first living artist to create...
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    Academy in New York Catholic devotions Anglican devotions Sacramentals Hortus conclusus Ann Ball, 2003 Encyclopedia of Catholic Devotions and Practices ISBN 0-87973-910-X...
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