The personified Earth: iconographic evolution and symbolic dimension
Abstract
The Greeks imagined the goddess Gaea, the Earth, as the origin of everything created; this is how both literary sources and artists have referred to her since ancient times. The image of the fecund goddess was associated with different myths and served as the personification of the natural element, either demystified or as part of a diverse symbolic / philosophical framework, depending on the artistic media and the contexts in which it was represented. We will attend to the iconography of the Earth from ancient Greece to the threshold of the Middle Ages.
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