Bůh Harpokratés, alegorie mlčenlivosti a Slavkov u Brna
| Title in English | God Harpocrates, Allegory of Silence and Slavkov u Brna |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | A ceiling painting in Residence in Slavkov u Brna depicts a man with his mouth tied up, putting a twig to a bird`s beak, with a figure of a child, who, putting its finger before its lips, asks for silence. Symbols of silence unveil many meanings. The look of the God Harpocrates were being formed by handbooks on iconography and mythography. But Harpocratic gesture used to be connected with numerous meanings. Last but not least this takes with connotation of sleep as a call do not wake up. In connection with this ideology, the allegory of silence was used in Slavkov, because the painting was located into the room next to the lady`s bedroom. The allegory corresponds with context of paintings of all the lady`s rooms, in which a uniting idea was the daily cycle, culminating by the bedroom fresco of Aurora driving off night. The relation of silence with the iconography of daily cycles can be found in Ripa`s Iconologia, in which silence is called friend of night and connected with dusk. |