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Ministerium Verbi
A man scatters seeds; representing the Biblical parable of the sower; here referring to the "ministry of the word", preaching. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
This series was originally intended by Murer to serve as illustration
to his play 'Edessa', but he died before completing it. The play
concerned the politics surrounding the Arian controversy in the fourth
century Christian church. In her book (cited below), T. Vignau-Wilberg
demonstrates that Murer used the story of the persecutions in Edessa of
non-Arians by Arians as a cipher for the persecution of Protestants by
Catholics in his contemporary Europe. However, the play was never
published and the etchings were published as emblems eight years after
his death, with a different text written by Johann Heinrich Rordorf,
sometimes at variance with the intention of the original
Refers to Bible. N.T. Matthew 12.3; Mark 4.1; Luke 8.4
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venerdì 30 ottobre 2015
L'asino e le reliquie
Christoph Murer in XL emblemata miscella nova, 1622, Nr. VIII.
Eine Fabel Aesops (Chambry Nr. 266; Perry 182) erzählt, dass ein Esel
das Bild der Göttin Isis trug; alles Volk verneigte sich vor diesem,
aber der Esel bezog die Huldigungen auf sich. Ein Esel trueg eins haylgen bild, | Vor dem sich nayget yederman, | Des [darüber] ward der Esel stoltz vnd wild, | Maint im selbs wurd die ehr gethan, … (Alciato Ausgabe 1542; Nr. XXXV; Übersetzung von Hunger; vgl. Liber emblematum / Kunstbuch, Franckfurt/M., 1567, Nr. CL)
giovedì 29 ottobre 2015
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