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Between Art and Nature
2015
Overview
A richly dressed woman stands before a forge and, using a hammer and anvil, fashions people out of existing parts: this isNatura artifex, or Nature the artisan (Plate 4). The metaphor ofNatura artifexwas commonly used in the early and high medieval periods to convey Nature’s role in a three-tiered system of creation that included the works of God, Nature, and human beings. Broadly speaking, the meta phor turns on the idea that Nature acts as an intermediary between the world of ideal forms and the world of matter. This metaphor is grounded in late antique secular Neoplatonism
