You can’t see the wood for the trees: Medieval plastic and iconographic appreciations
Keywords:
Paradise, Eden, garden, trees, balmAbstract
In this paper we study the meaning of some trees in the context of the milieu of the religious, artistic and iconographic thought of a Western Medieval person. As essential sources, we have used biblical texts and some Mesopotamian, as well as apocryphal writings, notices from the Fathers of the Church and stories from travellers and pilgrims. Particularly, we study the Paradise trees and their relation to Christ’s Cross. We add to that some reflections on the balm from the famous Balm Garden of Cairo.
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