1001-1800 Vitalist Secondary

Zodiacal Man. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413

 

Wood engraving of witches brewing a potion, circa 1500.

 

Women warriors preparing to take a ship, from On Viking Expeditions of High-Born Maidens. 1555

 

Woman teaching her daughter with a runestaff, man teaching his son. From Olaus Magnus, History of the Northern Peoples, 1555. These woodcuts contain some important early images of Sámi people

 

Sami Indigenous Peoples of Norway, circa 1900

 

Hupa Female Shaman, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1923

 

Mapuche medicine women treating a patient, Chile, early 20th century

 

Wound Man medical miscellany (‘Wellcome Apocalypse’), Germany 1420 (London, Wellcome Library, MS.49, fol. 35r) 2

 

Man-Woman – Hermaphrodite. The union of male and female symbolizes respectively, the earthly and the spiritual. It is the professed aim of alchemy.15th century diagram. The 4 Humors

 

The Macrocosm and the Microcosm

 

Robert Fludd (1574-1637) – The Trinity and the Generation of the Four Elements

 

Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum sapientiae                                      aeternae (1595)

 

The Spirit of Sulphur – Engraving from Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn, Quinta essentia … und Alchemia. 1570

 

J.D. Mylius — 1622 Multiplicatio

 

The Entire Earthly, Natural, and Dark Man, 1723, bookplate, Johann Georg Gichtel, Theosophia Practica (Practical Theosophy)

 

Symbolic alchemical watercolour drawings
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. 1725

 

The Company of Undertakers (w Sarah Mapp) 1736