“Return to Your True Self!” Practicing Spiritual Therapy with the Spiegel der Vernunft in Munich

Merback, Mitchell B.

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“…For example, Mitchell Merback has interpreted a circular table depicting a wayfarer (1488) as a diagrammatic form of image that encouraged self-reflection and self-recognition (plate 12). 70 In the centre of the table, the traveller steps towards an 'improbable structure' consisting of the tablets of the law topped by a crucifix. A devil pursues him from behind and ahead a skeleton readies his bow to release a deadly arrow.…”

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Thinking with Heraldry on the Eve of the Reformation: A Drawing by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch

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2023

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This essay addresses an understudied drawing of a fictional coat of arms by the Swiss artist Niklaus Manuel, called Deutsch, suggesting that it gently subverts heraldic conventions, reflecting contemporaneous concerns about the instability of earthly insignia. By evoking iconographies of Fortuna and the homo viator, the drawing challenges the security of armorial prestige. Manuel – like Albrecht Dürer and Martin Schongauer before him – used the heraldic framework to probe pictorial conventions and to signal their artistic authority as arbiters of ornamental meaning. Produced on the eve of the Reformation, the drawing prefigures the intensified scrutiny of earthly and spiritual sign systems that would occur just a few years later. Art historians have tended to dismiss heraldry as a distinctly medieval and utilitarian category of image, too rule‐governed to nourish the imaginations of Renaissance artists. However, Manuel's drawing unlocks a window onto a world in which the heraldic provided a common point of reference for thinking about signification and identity during a period of transformative cultural change.

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Section: Spiritual Heraldry and The Pilgrimage Of The Soulmentioning

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Thinking with Heraldry on the Eve of the Reformation: A Drawing by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch

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2023

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“Return to Your True Self!” Practicing Spiritual Therapy with the Spiegel der Vernunft in Munich

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Thinking with Heraldry on the Eve of the Reformation: A Drawing by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch

Thinking with Heraldry on the Eve of the Reformation: A Drawing by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch

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