Liber depictus; medieval art; monastery; devotion; Český Krumlov

Článek analyzuje titulní vyobrazení z rukopisu Liber depictus určenému klášteru klarisek v Českém Krumlově zobrazující Apokalyptickou ženu stojící ve slunci.

In the title folio of Liber depictus, a manuscript commissioned around the year 1350 by the Rosenberg family for the double monastery of the Poor Clare sisters and Minorites in Český Krumlov, a Woman of the Apocalypse is depicted. The standard iconography of the Woman standing in the Sun, understood by medieval exegetes as the Virgin Mary, Christ?s bride and personification of the Church, is unusually juxtaposed with a number of unique elements. The most obvious is the presence of the Man of sorrows depicted in the Sun outshining the bosom of the woman, the inventive modification of the apocalyptic iconography obviously reflecting the Corpus Christi Feast celebrated in Český Krumlov and its monasteries during the 14th and 15th centuries with great splendour and a display of passion relics. In a mystical sense the image visualizes the union of the pure human soul with the Godhead. The Woman of the Apocalypse in Liber depictus therefore represents a unique poly-semantic image.