Astrology - an ancient science: a case study in the interpretation of drawings
Art historians are most accustomed to studying the meaning of works of art in finished works in which its expression is refined for a specific public. Preparatory drawings, however, present problems peculiar to their heuristic nature. Please return to this page in the near future for a discussion of the iconography of drawings through the example of a study by Parmigianino for his vault in S. Maria della Steccata, Parma.
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| From the Ancient World to the Renaissance: | |
| Barton, Tamsyn, Ancient Astrology, Routledge, London, New York, 1994. | |
| Clark, C, Shakespeare and science; a study of Shakespeare's interest in, and literary and dramatic use of, natural phenomena; with an account of the astronomy, astrology, and alchemy of his day, and his attitude towards these sciences, Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1929. | |
| Garin, E, Lo zodiaco della vita: la polemica sull'astrologia dal Trecento al Cinquecento, Roma Bari, 1976. = Garin, E, Astrology in the Renaissance : the zodiac of life, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London ; Boston, 1983; Penguin, New York, 1988 | |
| Kassell, L, Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London : Simon Forman : astrologer, alchemist, and physician, Clarendon, Oxford ; New York, 2005. | |
| Modern: | |
| Astrodienst, Understanding Astrology | |
| Jocelyn, John, Meditations on the Signs of the Zodiac, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 2006. | |
| Mason, Allen Michael, Sophia's Astrology of the Soul - a new methodology, 1995. | |
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Platt, Paul, Zodiacal Contemplations, Star Cross Press, Sheffield, Massachusetts. |
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| Platt, Paul, The Qualities of Time, 5 vols., Star Cross Press, Sheffield, Massachusetts. | |
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Powell, R, Hermetic Astrology: Towards a New Wisdom of the Stars (Hermetic Astrology), 1991. |
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| Rudhyar, D, The Astrology Of Personality: A Reformulation Of Astrological Concepts And Ideals In Terms Of Contemporary Psychology And Philosophy, 1936, Kessinger Publishing, 2004. | |
| Sucher, Willi, Cosmic Christianity, The Changing Countenance of Cosmology, an Introduction to Astrosophy, 1993. |
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