Comments on: Eroticism in garden art and design http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/08/09/eroticism-in-garden-art-and-design/ News and debate from Gardenvisit.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:15:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Christine http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/08/09/eroticism-in-garden-art-and-design/comment-page-1/#comment-1941 Christine Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:06:50 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1340#comment-1941 ps. Heironymous Bosch [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/Historical] worked in the period of transition from the Medieval world to the Reformation. His work is said to prefigure the Surrealists. Donald McKim's text the Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters "In relative contrast with patristic and medieval exegesis, the exegetical efforts of the sixthteenth and seventeenth centuries rested on a profound recourse to the biblical text in its original languages and in an increased focus on the literal sense of the text."p123. ps. Heironymous Bosch [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/Historical] worked in the period of transition from the Medieval world to the Reformation. His work is said to prefigure the Surrealists.

Donald McKim’s text the Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters “In relative contrast with patristic and medieval exegesis, the exegetical efforts of the sixthteenth and seventeenth centuries rested on a profound recourse to the biblical text in its original languages and in an increased focus on the literal sense of the text.”p123.

]]> By: Christine http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/08/09/eroticism-in-garden-art-and-design/comment-page-1/#comment-1940 Christine Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:37:33 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1340#comment-1940 Interesting that Kipling wrote a literal poem about the value of action and contemplation (prayer) in the art of the garden! [http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_garden.htm] I suspect that the Song of Songs rather than being literal is allegorical. Interesting that Kipling wrote a literal poem about the value of action and contemplation (prayer) in the art of the garden! [http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_garden.htm] I suspect that the Song of Songs rather than being literal is allegorical.

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