Claricia
Claricia was a 13th century illuminator . We encounter it in a presumably self-portrait in a psalter that was written around 1200 in southern Germany and is now in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore . In the figure marked by name, Claricia forms the undershoot of the initial Q at the beginning of Psalm 51 Quid gloriaris in malicia qui potens es in iniquitate ( What do you boast of your wickedness, you man of violence Psalm 52.3 EU ) The Psalter became perhaps made for the monastery Sankt Ulrich und Afra Augsburg , and Claricia is one of several hands who wrote it.
The art historian Dorothy Miner suspected in 1972 in her lecture Anastaise and her sisters: women artists of the Middle Ages , which was printed in 1974 and started research on medieval women artists , due to Claricia's casual demeanor and clothing, that she was not one Nun, but a lay convent student.
However, this identification is not entirely undisputed, and there are several alternative hypotheses.
literature
- Katrin Graf: Portraits of women writing in the Middle Ages, 9th to the beginning of the 13th century Basel: Schwabe 2002 Zugl .: Genève, Univ., Diss., 1999 ISBN 9783796515897 , pp. 60f
Web links
- Digital copy of the entire Claricia Psalter (Walters, MS W.26)
Individual evidence
- ^ Dorothy Miner: Anastaise and her sisters: women artists of the Middle Ages. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1974. See Whitney Chadwick: Woman, Art, and Society. London: Thames and Hudson 1990 ISBN 0-500-20241-9 , p. 53
- ↑ Paerchment and pixels , accessed 13 May 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Claricia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Illuminator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 12th century or 13th century |