El Renacimiento Vegetal. Erboles de Jesé entre El Viejo Mundo y El Nuevo

Abstract

This article is devoted to feather work. The author suggests that the book known as Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, housed at the Communal Library of Imola, contains a xylography that could have been used as a model to represent the Tree of Jese. The author thinks that this xylography is the origin of the representations of Jese’s trees that exist in the miters which today belong to the Völkerkunde Museum in Vienna and to the ones that ornate the Cathedral in Toledo. In search of other aspects which could have influenced the representations of plants, the author describes as well the visual and narrative European referents which probably influenced the way in which indigenous people used to represent them.