what time was it? kristen lippincott 29 jan 2013
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What time was it?
Kristen Lippincott29 Jan 2013
William BlakeUrizen, 1793Manchester, City Art Gallery
India (Bengal)Kali striding over the corpse of Shivapainted clay, late 19th centuryThe British Museum
India (Madurai)Krishna as the Supreme Creator and Destroyer of the UniverseGouache on canvas, late 18th centuryThe British Library
AztecXipe Totecc. 1500, bronze
AztecXipe Totecc. 1500, terracotta
BabylonianCreation tablet10th century BC, baked clayBritish Museum
Fred Stevens (‘Grey Squirrel’)The Whirling Log1966, sand paingingLondon, Horniman Museum
BininywuiRivers, Palms and stoones20 th century Paris, Quai Branley
Unknown artistTurtle dreaming20th centuryParis, Quai Branley
Venus cycles of the Mayan calendar from The Dresden Codex
Netsuke group of zodiac animalsivory, 9th centuryThe British Museum
James Ussher,The Annals of the World deduced from the Origins of Time…,London 1658
Abrecht Dürer,The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypsec. 1497-98
Gustave DoréIllustrations to Dante’s Paradiso, Canto 5
Either there is civil strife in heaven,
Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,
Incenses them to send destruction …
For I believe, they are portentous things,
Unto the climate that they point upon.
Julius Caesar, Act I, scene iii
Edward John PoyntonThe Ides of March, 1883Manchester, City Art Gallery
Raphael,Crucifixion, c. 1503London, National Gallery
Gentile da FabrianoAdoration of the Magi, 1423Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi
Les Échecs amoureuxParis, BN, fr.143fol. 20 r
Conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and the Moon – 6 April 2000
Sandro BotticelliS Augustine, c. 1480Florence, Chiesa dell’Ognissanti
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St Lambert of OmerLiber Floridus, 13th centuryParis BN, lat 8865, fol. 59r
The heliacal (dawn) rising of Sirius (α CMa)
BabylonianCreation tablet10th century BC, baked clayThe British Museum
Babylonian (Ninevah)Celestial planisphere650 BC, baked clayThe British Museum
Macrobius, Commentarii in somnium Sciponis …
Ascendant =eastern horizon
mid-heaven
Biblia Vulgare IstoriataVenice 1471Manchester, John Rylands Library
Aries
Sun
Paris, BN, fr 757, fol. 41rPontificale secundum ritum sacrosanctae Romanae ecclesiae,Venice 1520
Vatican, BAV, Vat lat 681, fol. 96r The Hamilton Bible’Berlin, KupferstichkabinettMs 78 E 83, fol. 96r‘
Aries
Sun
Bartolo di Fredi,Come Dio creò il mundo, 1367San Gimignano, Chiesa della Collegiata
Aries
Sun
Giusto de’MenabuoiCreation of the world, 1376-78Padua, Duomo Baptistery
Maffiolo da Cremona,The Fourth Day of Creation, c. 1420Milan, Duomo
Pellegrino da Mariano,Creation of the WorldCambridge, Fitzwilliam, Ms no 197
Aries
Sun
Giovanni di Paolo,Creation of the World and Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, 1445New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pietro di Pucci da OrvietoCreation of the world, 1389-90Pisa, Camposanto
St Augustine:
‘The angels are included amongst the works of God and they are the Light, which received the word ‘Day’.
St Thomas Aquinas:
The order of things created by God demonstrates the unity of the universe, the universe itself being ‘the one’, united by and order following that by which everything is ordered.
12 hrs
12 hrs
12 hrs
12 hrs
12 hrs
12 hrs
day
day
day
night
night
night
SUMMER
WINTER
Japanese30-hour Pillar clock, c. 1860Faversham, Harris (Belmont) Charity
moveable hour scale
month pointer
June December
Humfrey ColeAltitude dial, c. 1570London, British Museum
12 midday
12 midnight
Common hours =
French hoursGerman hourszodiac of hours
12
3
2
3
1
midday
midnight
Italian hoursBohemian hours
Welsch hours
sunset
3
2
1
23
22
midday
midnight
Babylonian hoursGreek hours
sunrise
1
23
23
midday
midnight
Nuremberg hours
sunrise
sunset
1
2
3
1
23
Antonio CanalePiazza S Giacometto di Rialto, 1726-30Dresden, Gemälgegalerie
XVIII
I
midday
midnight
Italian hoursBohemian hours
Welsch hours
3
23
22
1
sunset
2
William HogarthAn Election Entertainment, 1754-55London, Sir John Soane Museum
Pope Gregory XVIII being addressed by the Commission for Calendar ReformJuly 1582-June 1583Siena, Archivio di Stato
Wencelaus HollarFather Time carrying the Pope back to Rome, c. 1641London, British Museum
‘This burden back to Rome,I’ll beare againe,From hence it came,There let it still remaine….’
25 March + 11 Days =
5 April
Muhammad al-Sakasi al-JakarsiQuadrant with perpetual calendarsAH 1308 (1891-92 AD)London British Museum
jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec
Feast of the Circumcision
stile veneto
Feast of the Incarnation of Christ
Easter or della Pasqua or stile francese
stile bizantino
Feats of the Nativity Feast of the Nativity
Ricordo come ogi questo dì 6 dì
marzo, mi nacque un fanciulo
mastio: posigli nome
Michelangnolo, et nacque in
lunedì matina , innanzi dì 4 o 5
ore…
(nota che addì 6 marzo 1474 è
alla fiorentina ab incarnatione, et
alla Romana, a nativitate, è
1475.)
I record that today, the 6th of
March 1474, a son was born to
me. I named him Micheagnolo
and he was born on the Monday
morning, some time between 4
and 5 hours before it …
(note that this date of 6 March
1474 is given in ‘the florentine
style’, or from the incarnation,
which in ‘the Roman style,
calculated from the nativity,
would be 1475.)
birth record from Michelangelo’s father:
notice from Ascanio Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 1553
…l’anno della salute nostra
1474, il dì sesto di marzo,
quattro ore inanzi giorno, in
lunedì.
… in the year 1474, on the 6th
of March at 4 hours before the
morning, on a Monday.
notice from Benedetto Varchi’s funeral oration for Michelangelo, 1564
… questo benedetto figliuolo,
la domenica notte del sesto
giorno di marzo, d’intorno à
otto hore: l’anno della nostra
salute mille quattrocento
settantaquattro.
… this blessed son was born
on Sunday night of the 6th of
March, around the eighth hour,
in 1474.
from Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 1568 edn.
Naque dunque un figliuolo …
l’anno 1474 … il sesto dì di
marzo, la domenica, intorno
all’otto di notte.
Thus a son was born … in
1474… on the sixth day of
March , a Sunday, around the
eighth hour of the night.
father: 6 March 1474* 4 or 5 in the morning Monday
Condivi: 6 March 1474 4 in the morning Monday
Varchi: 6 March 1474 8th hour of the night Sunday
Vasari: 6 March 1474 8th hour of the night Sunday
sunset sunrise
Sunday
Sunday
Monday
eighth hour of the night
midnight
4-5 hours before dawn
1474 = 3°
1475 = 25°
mar jun sept dec mar jun sept dec mar jun sept dec
Feast of the Incarnation of Christ
Feast of the Nativity
1474
1475
1474
1474
1475
1475
6 March 1474alla fiorentinawithout planets conjunct
6 March 1474alla Romanawith planets conjunct