Enciclopedia Cattolica

Plate V · Scorpion

Vol. XI (1953) · full-page plate
Above left: CRUCIFIXION with the standards bearing the scorpion, on white background, and the monogram SPQR. Miniature of Missal, attributed to Niccolò da Bologna (ca. 1350) - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. del Capitolo di S. Pietro 63 B, f. 189°. Above right: THE LIBERAL ARTS, with Dialectic at the centre distinguished by the scorpion. Detail of the fresco by S. Botticelli, depicting Lorenzo Tornabuoni presented by Minerva to the Liberal Arts (1486) - Paris, Louvre. Below: ASCENT TO CALVARY. The scorpion is reproduced on the white standard in the centre and on a rectangular banner of white cloth, hung on a trumpet. The purple standard of the Romans bears the noted monogram arranged in this way: RQPS. Fresco by Giacomo Jaquerio of Turin (first half of the 15th cent.) - S. Antonio di Ranverso, sacristy of the abbey church.
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Above left: CRUCIFIXION with the standards bearing the scorpion, on white background, and the monogram SPQR. Miniature of Missal, attributed to Niccolò da Bologna (ca. 1350) - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. del Capitolo di S. Pietro 63 B, f. 189°. Above right: THE LIBERAL ARTS, with Dialectic at the centre distinguished by the scorpion. Detail of the fresco by S. Botticelli, depicting Lorenzo Tornabuoni presented by Minerva to the Liberal Arts (1486) - Paris, Louvre. Below: ASCENT TO CALVARY. The scorpion is reproduced on the white standard in the centre and on a rectangular banner of white cloth, hung on a trumpet. The purple standard of the Romans bears the noted monogram arranged in this way: RQPS. Fresco by Giacomo Jaquerio of Turin (first half of the 15th cent.) - S. Antonio di Ranverso, sacristy of the abbey church.

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