Visionary Women & Medieval Art Hildegard of Bingen: Medieval Vision and the Visionary Tradition of Female Piety

Carolingian, Ebbo Gospels: St. Matthew, c Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias (Know the Ways): Author Portrait (Hildegard’s Prophetic Calling), c Frontispiece to Introduction.

Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias: The Man in Sapphire Blue (Vision of the Trinity), c nd vision, part II.

Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias: the Egg of the Universe, c Facsimile copy. 3 rd vision, part I.

Hildegard of Bingen’s De Operatione Dei (On the Work of God): Cultivating the Cosmic Tree, c th vision of DOD.

Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias: Redemption, Cosmic Healing, Cosmic Regeneration, c th vision, part III.

Anon. German, Pietà, c. 1360/70. Polychromed wood. From the former Dominican nunnery at Adelhausen, Germany. Affective Piety for Medieval Holy Women

Anon. German, Christ Child with Garments and Crown, c Polychromed wood and mixed media. From Heilig Kreuz convent in Rostock, Germany.

Albrecht Dürer, Crucifixion, Woodcut. Anon. German, Christ Child in the Sacred Heart with the Five Wounds and Instruments of the Passion, Woodcut.