Enclosed garden (Allegory)
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Name (Hebrew)
גן סגור (אלגוריה)
Name (Latin)
Enclosed garden (Allegory)
Name (Arabic)
الحديقة المسورة (استعارة رمزية)
Other forms of name
Hortus conclusus (Allegory)
See Also From tracing topical name
Allegories
Gardens Symbolic aspects
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
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Q1630273
Library of congress:
sh2021006931
Sources of Information
- Work cat:Herbert McAvoy, L. Enclosed garden and the Medieval religious imaginary, 2021:t.p. (Enclosed garden) p. 5, etc. (the ubiquitous image of the enclosed garden takes shape within the Middle Ages, a critique of which lies at the heart of this study; walled garden frequently associated with Eden as the original paradisal 'home'; during the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular romance, it appeared in myriad literary and iconographic forms)
- under The unicorn surrenders to a maiden (from the Unicorn tapestries): an enclosed garden (hortus conclusus), often a metaphor for the purity of a maiden ( (Metropolitan Museum of Art website, Aug. 17, 2021) )
- under Glossary/Hortus conclusus: Hortus Conclusus is the Latin for an enclosed garden. The depiction of such a garden in Christian art from the Middle Ages onwards is often intended to suggest purity. The garden is frequently shown walled, so implying impenetrability. The image refers to the virginity of Mary, Christ's mother. The idea of the Hortus Conclusus is also associated with the Garden of Eden of the Old Testament ( (National Gallery website, Aug. 17, 2021) )
- OED, Aug. 17, 2021(hortus conclusus, n.; a. An inclosed, inviolate garden; in spiritual and exegetical tradition, the symbol of the soul, the Church, or the virginity of Mary)
- p. 84 (Medieval commentaries interpreted 'a garden enclosed' as referring to the untainted virginity of Mary; the enclosed, locked garden (the "hortus conclusus") and the sealed spring ("fons signatus") became iconographic symbols of the Virgin Mary's chastity and purity ( (Neuphilologische Miteilungen (via JSTOR), 1998:) )
- The 'close-locked' garden, or hortus conclusus, as it became known in the Renaissance, was one of the most influential early garden images; a metaphor for virginity, as well as a reference to the prelapsarian paradise ( (Tate Etc (via Internet, May 1, 2004) )
- Hortus conclusus is a Latin term, meaning literally "enclosed garden"; The hortus conclusus was one of a number of depictions of the Virgin in the late Middle Ages developed to be more informal and intimate than the traditional hieratic enthroned Virgin ( (Wikipedia, Aug. 17, 2021) )
Wikipedia description:
Hortus conclusus is a Latin term, meaning literally "enclosed garden". Both words in hortus conclusus refer linguistically to enclosure. It describes a type of garden that was enclosed as a practical concern, a major theme in the history of gardening, as walled gardens used to be more commonplace. The garden room is a similar feature, usually less fully enclosed. Having roots in the Song of Songs in the Hebrew scriptures, the term hortus conclusus has importantly been applied as an emblematic attribute and a title of the Virgin Mary in Medieval and Renaissance poetry and art, first appearing in paintings and manuscript illuminations about 1330.
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