{"id":7443,"date":"2018-06-01T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2021-05-16T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T12:52:19","slug":"the-ideal-bride-through-the-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/evus-lifting-the-veil\/the-ideal-bride-through-the-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Uxor, the ideal bride in the Main Fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>In the cycle of the twelve months of the year, carved by Giovanni and Nicola Pisano in 1278 on the Main Fountain of Perugia, May is represented by an <em>uxor\u00a0<\/em>(latin term for wife) riding a horse and followed by an elegant medieval knight.<\/p>\n<p>The lady of May is holding a hawk on her left arm, and a whip in her right one. The man has three roses for his wife: the scene represents the symbolic language of the age of chivalry and courtly love (amor cortese).<\/p>\n<p>The two figures carved in the marble in the lower basin of the monument, remind to the atmosphere of a courtly wedding, as in the Middle Ages it was usual for the wedding party to parade through the streets of the city, with the bride on horse at the head of the procession.<br \/>The parents, the relatives and the friends followed the bride to her new residence: the house of the family of her husband.<\/p>\n<p>The panels dedicated to the months of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evus.it\/en\/index.php\/news\/portrait\/under-the-sign-of-virgo\/\">August\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evus.it\/en\/index.php\/news\/portrait\/under-the-sign-of-virgo\/\">January<\/a> represent two figures of wives helping in everyday activities, including work in the fields, such as the lady of August that is shown in the panel collecting figs with her husband.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/uxor_aprile-e1621163045326.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>In April and May, months of springtime, the <em>uxor\u00a0<\/em>takes on the ideal role of a bride, whereas the function of the medieval woman has shifted more towards the domestic sphere, in the panels representing August and January.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/uxor-agosto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The month of August is represented by a matured wife<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In perfect accord with the passing of time, the\u00a0<i>uxor<\/i>\u00a0in the panel dedicated\u00a0to\u00a0August is represented by a flowered and matured woman.\u00a0 She is no longer the young and immature bride as depicted in April and May.\u00a0The lady in the panel of January is aged, because the winter month represents the changeover from the old to the new year, when nature is at rest, when husband and wife are sitting near the fireplace, eating bread and meat and drinking water and wine. The Zodiac sign is Aquarius. The woman depicted in this month looks close to the end of life, next to death, but at the same time she represents a symbolic time \u00a0awaiting the dawn of spring season, \u00a0anticipating the rebirth of a new life.<\/p>\n<div><strong>Antonella Bazzoli<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>The article is part of the research\u00a0 \u201cChi dice acqua dice donna\u201d\u00a0 by A. Bazzoli, edited in \u201cMedioevo\u201d, Year 13 N. 6,\u00a0 June 2009<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tags\"><strong>Tags:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evus.it\/en\/index.php\/tag\/main-fountain\/\" rel=\"tag\">Main Fountain<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evus.it\/en\/index.php\/tag\/medieval-woman\/\" rel=\"tag\">medieval woman<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evus.it\/en\/index.php\/tag\/perugia\/\" rel=\"tag\">Perugia<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the cycle of the twelve months of the year, carved by Giovanni and Nicola Pisano in 1278 on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1158],"tags":[1358,1367,1368,1359,1366,1364,1357,44],"class_list":["post-7443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evus-lifting-the-veil","tag-april","tag-august","tag-january","tag-main-fountain","tag-may","tag-medieval-women","tag-middle-ages","tag-perugia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7551,"href":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions\/7551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evus.it\/it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}