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Zodiac sign of Aquarius in a 13/14th century manuscript by e-codices on Flickr.

The zodiac sign of AQUARIUS is associated with the month of January and it is represented by the water carrier. In most of the standard medieval iconographic compositions, the water carrier is represented by a single man or a woman, standing or seated, holding one or two vases from which water pours. Usually set in a landscape, the figure is sometimes immersed in a lake, into which he/she pours the water from the vase. The vase is always Classical in form, and in some cases the water flows away from the figure instead of vertically. In some depictions, the figure of the water carrier is represented by a genderless figure which perhaps resembles to a child.

In the modern horoscope the zodiac sign of AQUARIUS covers the period from about 20 January until 18 February.

AGS-066 Madonna auf dem breiten Thronsitz 4b by petrus.agricola on Flickr.

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Woman walking. margin pen. 15e siecle. France. B de T by tony harrison on Flickr.

Farming the Land by YIP2 on Flickr.

Farming the Land

Fresco from the newly restored Church of Sant’Agostino (thirteenth-century) at Montalcino, Italy.

St Denis, Paris, France by Martin Beek on Flickr.

The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis is a large medieval abbey church in the commune of Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris. The abbey church was created a cathedral in 1966. The building is of unique importance historically and architecturally.
Founded in the 7th century by Dagobert I on the burial place of Saint Denis, a patron saint of France, the church became a place of pilgrimage and the burial place of the French Kings, nearly every king from the 10th to the 18th centuries being buried there, as well as many from the previous centuries. (It was not used for the coronations of kings, this role being designated to the Cathedral of Reims; however, queens were commonly crowned there.) “Saint-Denis” soon became the abbey church of a growing monastic complex. In the 12th century the Abbot Suger rebuilt portions of the abbey church using innovative structural and decorative features that were drawn from a number of other sources. In doing so, he is said to have created the first truly Gothic building. The basilica’s 13th century nave is also the prototype for the Rayonnant Gothic style, and provided an architectural model for cathedrals and abbeys of northern France, England and other countries.

“This is Leviathan” bibical text. France 1277-86. Add 11639 BL by tony harrison on Flickr.

“This is Leviathan” bibical text. France 1277-86. Add 11639 BL by tony harrison on Flickr.

Crow. detail. French 1447 Enlum. by tony harrison on Flickr.

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Creation of Birds.

From the Nuremberg Chronicle.

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Lindisfarne Priory, England (Founded AD 635)

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Saint king (Ladislas?), c 1440, detail 6 by DeBeer on Flickr.

Camarasa Historiated Capitals with detail of angel and Abraham in profile by profzucker on Flickr.

Camarasa Historiated Capitals with detail of angel and Abraham in profile

Romanesque historiated capitals from the crossing of the church of Sant Miquel of the castle of Camarasa (Noguera), 77 x 1.65 x 77.5 cm. Currently in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya Palau Nacional in Parc de Montjuïc, Barcelona.

smarthistory.org/historiated-capitals-sant-miquel.html

Romanesque corpus of Christ, 950-1150 by DeBeer on Flickr.