The Mystic Ark

The Mystic Ark is an image described by Hugh of Saint Victor (ca. 1096–1141), but no copy exists and debate surrounds whether it ever physically existed.{{Cite web|url=http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2462#.WOKFs03sG7R|title=The Mystic Ark: Hugh of Saint Victor, Art, and Thought in the Twelfth Century|website=www.caareviews.org|access-date=2019-01-22}}{{Cite web|url=https://mysticark.ucr.edu/about-the-mystic-ark/|title=About the Mystic Ark {{!}} The Mystic Ark|last=admin|date=18 April 2014 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-22}}{{Cite web|url=https://newsroom.ucr.edu/1984|title=UCR Newsroom: Art Historian Recreates 12th Century Mural|website=newsroom.ucr.edu|access-date=2019-01-22}}

Renderings

File:The Mystic Ark.jpg|The Mystic Ark. Original 1125 to early 1130. Shown as it might have appeared if constructed at the convent of Hohenbourg during the abbacy of Abbess Herrad in the late twelfth century. The construction here has a height of 3.632 meters (11 feet, 11 inches) and width of 4.623 meters (15 feet, 2 inches).

File:The_Mystic_Ark,_Diagram,_main_components.jpg|The Mystic Ark, diagram. Main components. Clement/Bahmer/Rivas/Rudolph

References

External links

http://mysticark.ucr.edu/ - a detailed collection of the same illustrations published in The Mystic Ark: Hugh of Saint Victor, Art, and Thought in the Twelfth Century.

Category:12th-century manuscripts

Category:12th-century paintings