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Etz, Laura: Magie und Mythologie: Symbiotisch-künstlerische Beziehungen im "Calendarium naturale magicum perpetuum", in Wagner, Berit and Gannon, Corinna (Eds.): Opus magnum: Matthäus Merian d.Ä. und die Bebilderung der Alchemie, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net-ART-Books, 2024, p. 301–308. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1311.c19548
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05/08/2024
Magie und Mythologie
Symbiotisch-künstlerische Beziehungen im "Calendarium naturale magicum perpetuum"
Matthäus Merian the Elder’s print of the Calendarium naturale magicum perpetuum […] deals with natural magic and alchemy in the form of a schematic table.
In the sense of conveying knowledge in alchemy, the content is encoded. Based on a manuscript by Grossschedel, the printed pictures were created anew by Merian and also given a special aesthetic appeal. As a pictorial medium, they do not only serve as a purely illustrative addition to the text, but also convey the encoding and decoding of scientific content in a different form and at the same time combine it with an aesthetic-artistic visual language.
