L'art roman et la merInternational audienceAccording to the Vulgate Jonah is swalfowed by a piscis grandis (Jonas,II III) or a cetus (Matthew, XlI), a word which means sea monster or large sea animal. ln Romanesque Latin commentaries the words piscis or cetus are systematically used, whereas sometimes in the vernacular texts "whale" appears. The images of Jonah (sculpture, illumination, stained glass window, enamel), very different to those of the Antiquity, show a fish or a terrifying monster. Jonah prefigures the Christ in a double way: being swallowed by the Fish and cast out of it, he announces bath Christs death and Christs resurrection. But the Fascination for the marvellous mays account for the prominence of the fish episode, wh...
In her natural encyclopaedy composed in the 1150s, Hildegard of Bingen († 1179 ) attempts to list th...
Fish play an interesting role in Greek cults. This kind of animal is not ordinarily used as sacrific...
Unlike other androcephals present in medieval imagery, sirens, chiefly in the form of mermaids, and ...
International audienceThe commentary of the Book of Jonah by Saint Jerome has influenced a lot of wr...
The quest for the identity of the fish in the story of Jonah has been extraordinary. Many attempts h...
This paper (1) analyzes the motif of the fish swallowing Jonah in light of similar episodes attested...
Marcellus of Side, a physician and didactic poet of the second century AD, mentions fourteen exclusi...
II.25.96. Catacomb of Priscilla. Jonah + Fish. (Velata - 3-4 cent)https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/fer...
Artifact Label: Holy Bible Brattleborough, Vermont: Holbrook & Fessenden, 1823 In chapter 9, “The Se...
The plot of the book of Jonah combines the motifs of a hero swallowed by a sea-monster with a hero r...
How a Small Biblical Story Became Prominent in Early Christian Art Monday9-9:45amBSB 12
A chest with scenes of the biblical story of Jonah and the whale. The whale is on the outside while ...
Leviathan and the other sea-monsters in the Hebrew Bible have been a source of dissension amongst bi...
28.5 x 25.5 cm., Pen and Ink on Cardstock. Illustration showing the apostles Matthew, Mark, and Luke...
In her natural encyclopaedy composed in the 1150s, Hildegard of Bingen († 1179 ) attempts to list th...
Fish play an interesting role in Greek cults. This kind of animal is not ordinarily used as sacrific...
Unlike other androcephals present in medieval imagery, sirens, chiefly in the form of mermaids, and ...
International audienceThe commentary of the Book of Jonah by Saint Jerome has influenced a lot of wr...
The quest for the identity of the fish in the story of Jonah has been extraordinary. Many attempts h...
This paper (1) analyzes the motif of the fish swallowing Jonah in light of similar episodes attested...
Marcellus of Side, a physician and didactic poet of the second century AD, mentions fourteen exclusi...
II.25.96. Catacomb of Priscilla. Jonah + Fish. (Velata - 3-4 cent)https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/fer...
Artifact Label: Holy Bible Brattleborough, Vermont: Holbrook & Fessenden, 1823 In chapter 9, “The Se...
The plot of the book of Jonah combines the motifs of a hero swallowed by a sea-monster with a hero r...
How a Small Biblical Story Became Prominent in Early Christian Art Monday9-9:45amBSB 12
A chest with scenes of the biblical story of Jonah and the whale. The whale is on the outside while ...
Leviathan and the other sea-monsters in the Hebrew Bible have been a source of dissension amongst bi...
28.5 x 25.5 cm., Pen and Ink on Cardstock. Illustration showing the apostles Matthew, Mark, and Luke...
In her natural encyclopaedy composed in the 1150s, Hildegard of Bingen († 1179 ) attempts to list th...
Fish play an interesting role in Greek cults. This kind of animal is not ordinarily used as sacrific...
Unlike other androcephals present in medieval imagery, sirens, chiefly in the form of mermaids, and ...