10491 - A Pair of Ornately Wrought Brass Lamps Depicting Hildegard of Bingen

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Item Description

A pair of ornately wrought brass lamps depicting Hildegard of Bingen, (St. Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine), a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath.  She is considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.  Hildegard's fellow nuns elected her as magistra in 1136; she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play.  She wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs and poems whilst supervising miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work, Scivias.  She is also noted for the invention of a constructed language known as Lingua Ignota.

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Dimensions

• Height: 22.5 inches
• Diameter: 8 inches