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What time was it?

What time was it?. Kristen Lippincott 29 Jan 2013. William Blake Urizen , 1793 Manchester, City Art Gallery. India (Bengal) Kali striding over the corpse of Shiva painted clay, late 19th century The British Museum . India (Madurai)

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What time was it?

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  1. What time was it? Kristen Lippincott 29 Jan 2013

  2. William Blake Urizen, 1793 Manchester, City Art Gallery

  3. India (Bengal) Kali striding over the corpse of Shiva painted clay, late 19th century The British Museum  India (Madurai) Krishna as the Supreme Creator and Destroyer of the Universe Gouache on canvas, late 18th century The British Library 

  4. Aztec Xipe Totec c. 1500, bronze  Aztec Xipe Totec c. 1500, terracotta  Fred Stevens (‘Grey Squirrel’) The Whirling Log 1966, sand painging London, Horniman Museum  Babylonian Creation tablet 10th century BC, baked clay British Museum 

  5. Unknown artist Turtle dreaming 20th century Paris, Quai Branley Bininywui Rivers, Palms and stoones 20th century Paris, Quai Branley

  6. Netsuke group of zodiac animals ivory, 9th century The British Museum Venus cycles of the Mayan calendar from The Dresden Codex

  7. James Ussher, The Annals of the World deduced from the Origins of Time…, London 1658

  8. Abrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse c. 1497-98

  9. Gustave Doré Illustrations to Dante’s Paradiso, Canto 5

  10. Either there is civil strife in heaven, Or else the world, too saucy with the gods, Incenses them to send destruction … For I believe, they are portentous things, Unto the climate that they point upon. Julius Caesar, Act I, scene iii Edward John Poynton The Ides of March, 1883 Manchester, City Art Gallery

  11. Raphael, Crucifixion, c. 1503 London, National Gallery Gentile da Fabriano Adoration of the Magi, 1423 Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi

  12. Les Échecs amoureux Paris, BN, fr.143 fol. 20 r

  13. Conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and the Moon – 6 April 2000

  14. Sandro Botticelli S Augustine, c. 1480 Florence, Chiesa dell’Ognissanti

  15. [SLIDE] St Lambert of Omer Liber Floridus, 13th century Paris BN, lat 8865, fol. 59r

  16. The heliacal (dawn) rising of Sirius (α CMa)

  17. Babylonian Creation tablet 10th century BC, baked clay The British Museum Babylonian (Ninevah) Celestial planisphere 650 BC, baked clay The British Museum

  18. mid-heaven Ascendant = eastern horizon Macrobius, Commentarii in somnium Sciponis …

  19. Biblia Vulgare Istoriata Venice 1471 Manchester, John Rylands Library

  20. Aries Sun Pontificale secundum ritum sacrosanctae Romanae ecclesiae, Venice 1520 Paris, BN, fr 757, fol. 41r

  21. Aries Vatican, BAV, Vat lat 681, fol. 96r The Hamilton Bible’ Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett Ms 78 E 83, fol. 96r‘

  22. Sun Bartolo di Fredi, Come Dio creò il mundo, 1367 San Gimignano, Chiesa della Collegiata

  23. Aries Sun Giusto de’Menabuoi Creation of the world, 1376-78 Padua, Duomo Baptistery

  24. Maffiolo da Cremona, The Fourth Day of Creation, c. 1420 Milan, Duomo Pellegrino da Mariano, Creation of the World Cambridge, Fitzwilliam, Ms no 197

  25. Aries Sun Giovanni di Paolo, Creation of the World and Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, 1445 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

  26. Pietro di Pucci da Orvieto Creation of the world, 1389-90 Pisa, Camposanto

  27. St Augustine: ‘The angels are included amongst the works of God and they are the Light, which received the word ‘Day’. St Thomas Aquinas: The order of things created by God demonstrates the unity of the universe, the universe itself being ‘the one’, united by and order following that by which everything is ordered.

  28. day 12 hrs day SUMMER 12 hrs 12 hrs night day 12 hrs WINTER 12 hrs night 12 hrs night

  29. June December moveable hour scale month pointer Japanese 30-hour Pillar clock, c. 1860 Faversham, Harris (Belmont) Charity

  30. Humfrey Cole Altitude dial, c. 1570 London, British Museum

  31. 12 midday 1 2 3 Common hours = French hours German hours zodiac of hours 3 2 1 12 midnight

  32. midday 22 23 sunset 1 2 Italian hours Bohemian hours Welsch hours 3 midnight

  33. 3 midday 2 1 sunrise 23 Babylonian hours Greek hours midnight

  34. 3 midday 2 1 sunrise sunset 1 Nuremberg hours 2 midnight 3

  35. XVIII I Antonio Canale Piazza S Giacometto di Rialto, 1726-30 Dresden, Gemälgegalerie

  36. midday Italian hours Bohemian hours Welsch hours 22 23 sunset 1 2 3 midnight

  37. William Hogarth An Election Entertainment, 1754-55 London, Sir John Soane Museum

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