"The Universe" from the Scivias, ca. 1165, by Hildegard von Bingen, manuscript illumination. Image: The Yorck Project (2002)
Creation and Cosmos in the Twelfth Century: Hildegard's Cosmic Egg
GETTY CENTER
Museum Lecture Hall
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Join Margot Fassler, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, on a journey through the stages of creation according to the Book of Genesis and a 12th-century, egg-shaped model of the universe as envisioned by the German nun, visionary, and scientist Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179). This illustrated lecture, which complements the exhibition The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts, will explore the inner workings of art found in Hildegard's Scivias, a theological treatise about how the cosmos was created, why it exists, and how it moves through time to its inevitable demise.