Reserved Knowledge
Date
1795
Creator
Location
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
In the upper part of this print showing a detail from Elysium and Tartarus, an archangel explains the laws of the solar system, unveiled before them, to the scientists Copernicus, Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, and Sir Francis Bacon. The scientists and philosophers Thales, René Descartes, and Archimedes sit in the row below while to the right are seen the reclining figures of the Franciscan Roger Bacon and his supporter Bishop Grosseteste. Barry suggests that in Elysium or Heaven, the mysteries of the world will be made comprehensible. from Bindman, No Cross, No Crown: Prints by James Barry from the Collection of William L. and Nancy Pressly (Notre Dame, 2016)
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