Exploring the iconography of a lionaquamanile with an enthroned woman. Iconography involves the collection, classification and analysis of data, from which the theme or subject of a work of art is deduced. Provides the lexicon of ancient christian literature lacl concise overview of the life and works of ancient christian writers to 735 n. Pentecost becomes a prototype for the learned assembly of the church and its representatives. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Art dictionaries, manuals, handbooks, guides, and encyclopedias.
Through visual presentation, students can identify the main iconographic themes of the eras of christian art. Online 1991 to date a huge photographic archive with a thematic index in card catalog form. Developing an electronic thesaurus of terms for byzantine. Iconography, symbolism, motifs, topoi, and imagery medieval. The development of winged angels in early christian art.
This article analyzes the iconography of saint nicholas from the retrospective angle of the interrelation of constituent meanings. Iconography scholarworks at wmu western michigan university. Iconography article about iconography by the free dictionary. A source for rubenss modello of the assumption and coronation of the virgin. This one is on medieval art, specifically iconography, the intellectual content of medieval art. Colum hourihane, iconography in the western world, oxford bibliographies. Projektprasentation des verlags herder zur zweiten auflage pdf. General iconography allgemeine ikonographie and iconography of. Gunter bandmann, wolfgang braunfels, johannes kollwitz, engelbert kirschbaum on.
Saints and their images in byzantium, princeton 1996, especially in chapter 2 corporality and immateriality, p. It is the discovery of symbolic and allegorical meanings in a work of art. Guide to manual and mechanical processes from woodcut. Visual syntax in the iconography of saint nicholas request pdf. Reproduces and indexes all christian art up to 1400. David freedberg a source for rubenss modello of the. The iconographic history of these developments has been extensively documented in. Pdf iconography, in oxford handbook of byzantine studies.
The researcher must be aware of the historical context of the work in question, and an iconographic fallacy. The panel painitngs of masolino and masaccio the role of technique, 5 contients edition, milan 2002 module b second semester. Download pdf biographisch bibliographisches quellen. L4 bd 18 covers a broad range of christian symbols and themes. Iconography has always been fundamental to the study of early christian and byzantine art. This important dictionary has signed articles covering a broad range of christian symbols and themes. First four volumes contain general iconography, the last four are devoted to saints. In the seminars, students learn about basic concepts of iconography, iconology, iconic, and they are introduced into the analysis of iconographic themes. A lexicon of christian iconography church history cambridge core. Encyclopedia of comparative iconography teaching and learning.
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