The Stars in the Classical and Medieval Traditions

0510768 - ÚSD 2020 RIV CZ eng M - Monography Chapter
Hadravová, Alena
Manilius’s Symbolism in the Park Sculptures of the Lnáře Castle.
The Stars in the Classical and Medieval Traditions. Praha: Scriptorium, 2019 - (Hadravová, A.; Hadrava, P.; Lippincott, K.), s. 253-270. ISBN 978-80-88013-88-4
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-03314S
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/14
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : history of astronomy * Lnáře castle * Manilius
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The contribution deals with the collection of twelve sculptures from the sculpture workshop of Platzer family (the 18th century) which was made for the garden of the castle Lnáře (South Bohemian Region). The sculptures represent twelve gods of Greek classical pantheon. The contribution improves the wrong identifications of several of them. The bases of sculptures are decorated with the perso¬nified ecliptical constellations (signs). The key for the understanding of the whole composition of the work is the poem Astronomica by Marcus Manilius from the 1st cent. AD. On its basis the correct attribution of the gods to the zodiacal signs is described in the contribution. The idea of Lnáře collection is unique in our country.
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