De visione Dei (De icona)
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
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- Written by the author
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- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~24,000 words · 114 passages
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- APANicholas of Cusa. (n.d.). De visione Dei (De icona). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nicholas-of-cusa/de-visione-dei-de-icona
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- ChicagoNicholas of Cusa. De visione Dei (De icona). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nicholas-of-cusa/de-visione-dei-de-icona.
What it is about
On the Vision of God (1453): written for the monks of Tegernsee, with a painting enclosed.
Context and history
Cusanus sent them a portrait whose gaze follows you wherever you stand, and builds the whole meditation out of that experience: how one gaze can look at all of them at once. It is philosophy that starts from an object the reader is holding. Text in LATIN: Cusanus's original, and the version to cite.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
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