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- Title
A dragon tree in the Garden of Eden.
- Authors
Mason, Peter
- Abstract
The first part of this contribution reviews the ways in which individual objects and collections of objects could pass both in and out of a religious context. Likewise, interpretations of their iconography could take on pagan or Christian connotations. Set against this background, the second part examines the role played by the dragon tree and its entry into texts and images of both a religious and a secular nature in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The concluding remarks call into question the disenchantment of the world.
- Subjects
COLLECTIONS; RELIGIOUS articles; PAGANISM; CHRISTIANITY; DRACAENA; TREES -- Religious aspects
- Publication
Journal of the History of Collections, 2006, Vol 18, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
0954-6650
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jhc/fhl020