Studies In Iconography

Author : Lena Liepe
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 1580443435

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The Locus of Meaning in Medieval Art by Lena Liepe Pdf

This book addresses the status and relevance of iconography and iconology in the contemporary scholarly study of medieval art. There is a widespread tendency among art historians today to regard the study of iconography and iconology in the tradition of Erwin Panofsky as an outmoded and trivial pursuit. Nonetheless, Panofsky's three-level interpretative model sits firmly in the methodological toolkit of art history and remains a common point of reference among adherents and adversaries alike. Iconography and iconology demand to be taken seriously as a feature of continued praxis in the discipline. The book contains a collection of essays on the validity of various approaches toward the interpretation of meaning in medieval art today. These essays either demonstrate the continued usefulness of iconography and iconology as analytical strategies, or propose alternative approaches to the investigation of meaning in the art of the Middle Ages.

Author : Erwin Panofsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429976698

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Studies In Iconology by Erwin Panofsky Pdf

In Studies in Iconology, the themes and concepts of Renaissance art are analysed and related to both classical and medieval tendencies.

Author : Colum Hourihane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315298368

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The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography by Colum Hourihane Pdf

Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians – including Mâle, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro – have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject matter of a work of medieval art can tell. Over the last thirty or so years, scholarship has seen the meaning and methodologies of the term considerably broadened. This companion provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the influence of the foremost iconographers, as well as the methodologies employed and themes that underpin the discipline. The first section focuses on influential thinkers in the field, while the second covers some of the best-known methodologies; the third, and largest section, looks at some of the major themes in medieval art. Taken together, the three sections include thirty-eight chapters, each of which deals with an individual topic. An introduction, historiographical evaluation, and bibliography accompany the individual essays. The authors are recognized experts in the field, and each essay includes original analyses and/or case studies which will hopefully open the field for future research.

Author : Art History Specialist at the Index of Medieval Art Henry D Schilb,Pamela A. Patton,Henry D. Schilb
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271086211

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The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography by Art History Specialist at the Index of Medieval Art Henry D Schilb,Pamela A. Patton,Henry D. Schilb Pdf

What does the study of iconography entail for scholars active today? How does it intersect with the broad array of methodological and theoretical approaches now at the disposal of art historians? Should we still dare to use the term "iconography" to describe such work? The seven essays collected here argue that we should. Their authors set out to evaluate the continuing relevance of iconographic studies to current art-historical scholarship by exploring the fluidity of iconography itself over broad spans of time, place, and culture. These wide-ranging case studies take a diversity of approaches as they track the transformation of medieval images and their meanings along their respective paths, exploring how medieval iconographies remained stable or changed; how images were reconceived in response to new contexts, ideas, or viewerships; and how modern thinking about medieval images--including the application or rejection of traditional methodologies--has shaped our understanding of what they signify. These essays demonstrate that iconographic work still holds a critical place within the rapidly evolving discipline of art history as well as within the many other disciplines that increasingly prioritize the study of images. This inaugural volume in the series Signa: Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University demonstrates the importance of keeping matters of image and meaning--regardless of whether we use the word "iconography"--at the center of modern inquiry into medieval visual literature. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Kirk Ambrose, Charles Barber, Catherine Fernandez, Elina Gertsman, Jacqueline E. Jung, Dale Kinney, and D. Fairchild Ruggles.

Author : Pamela A. Patton,Catherine A. Fernandez
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271093017

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Iconography Beyond the Crossroads by Pamela A. Patton,Catherine A. Fernandez Pdf

This volume assesses how current approaches to iconology and iconography break new ground in understanding the signification and reception of medieval images, both in their own time and in the modern world. Framed by critical essays that apply explicitly historiographical and sociopolitical perspectives to key moments in the evolution of the field, the volume’s case studies focus on how iconographic meaning is shaped by factors such as medieval modes of dialectical thought, the problem of representing time, the movement of the viewer in space, the fragmentation and injury of both image and subject, and the complex strategy of comparing distant cultural paradigms. The contributions are linked by a commitment to understanding how medieval images made meaning; to highlighting the heuristic value of new perspectives and methods in exploring the work of the image in both the Middle Ages and our own time; and to recognizing how subtle entanglements between scholarship and society can provoke mutual and unexpected transformations in both. Collectively, the essays demonstrate the expansiveness, flexibility, and dynamism of iconographic studies as a scholarly field that is still heartily engaged in the challenge of its own remaking. Along with the volume editors, the contributors include Madeline H. Caviness, Beatrice Kitzinger, Aden Kumler, Christopher R. Lakey, Glenn Peers, Jennifer Purtle, and Elizabeth Sears.

Author : Richard K. Emmerson,Pamela Sheingorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1879288613

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Studies in Iconography by Richard K. Emmerson,Pamela Sheingorn Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004232242

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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque by Anonim Pdf

Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Unique to other saints in the medieval lexicon, images of Mary Magdalene were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs of her patrons as well as her audience. By shedding light on the relationship between the Magdalene and her patrons, both corporate and private, as well as the religious institutions and regions where her imagery is found, this anthology reveals the flexibility of the Magdalene’s character in art and, in essence, the reinvention of her iconography from one generation to the next.

Author : Jens Andermann,William Rowe
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1845452127

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Images of Power by Jens Andermann,William Rowe Pdf

In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, 'postmodern' forms of sovereignty appear to rely even more heavily on visual discourses of power. However, a critique of the iconography of the modern state-form has been missing. This volume is the first concerted attempt by cultural, historical and visual scholars to address the political dimension of visual culture in Latin America, in a comparative perspective spanning various regions and historical stages. The case studies are divided into four sections, analysing the formation of a public sphere, the visual politics of avant-garde art, the impact of mass society on political iconography, and the consolidation and crisis of territory as a key icon of the state. Jens Andermann is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Birkbeck College, London, and co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Among his publications are Mapas de poder: una arqueología literaria del espacio argentino (Rosario, 2000) and articles for major journals in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the US. William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His book Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America (London, 1991) has been translated into several languages. His most recent works, apart from translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry, are Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life (Oxford, 2000) and Ensayos vallejianos (Berkeley and Lima, 2006).

Author : Millard Meiss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691003122

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Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death by Millard Meiss Pdf

The first extended study of the painting of Florence and Siena in the later 14th century, this book presents a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events.

Author : Christine M. Boeckl
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781935503453

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Images of Plague and Pestilence by Christine M. Boeckl Pdf

Since the late fourteenth century, European artists created an extensive body of images, in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other media, about the horrors of disease and death, as well as hope and salvation. This interdisciplinary study on disease in metaphysical context is the first general overview of plague art written from an art-historical standpoint. The book selects masterpieces created by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, and includes minor works dating from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the most important innovative artistic works that originated during the Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. This study of the changing iconographic patterns and their iconological interpretations opens a window to the past.

Author : Anthony Cutler
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015016669023

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Transfigurations by Anthony Cutler Pdf

In this investigation of three well-known motifs of Byzantine art the author establishes a relationship between changes of formal detail and varied contexts of meaning. Although the motifs studied occur throughout the thousand years of Byzantine history, they are seen not as static indicators of significance but as expressing changing aspects of meaning through modification of the details of form or composition. these changes of form are shown to be previously unconsidered aspects of iconography. Rather than investigating the classical or Early Christian origins of these motifs as is traditional in most scholarship, Dr. Cutler focuses on their adaptation to varying iconographical requirements and relates these changes to the shifting religious and political history of Byzantium. In illustrating this thesis, the author draws on a wide range of examples in mosaic, wall painting, manuscript illumination, and coins and controls his analysis by reference to Byzantine historical and theological literature. The result is a new understanding of major elements of Byzantine art and creativity and a method of approach widely applicable to other aspects of both Eastern and Western medieval iconography.

Author : Katherine M. D. Dunbabin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015020744549

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The Mosaics of Roman North Africa by Katherine M. D. Dunbabin Pdf

These mosaics illustrate in detail the transformation of the pictorial arts from the classical style to that of the Late Empire and Byzantium. The author focuses on the motifs of African mosaics and the roles played by patrons and craftsmen in their development.

Author : Jessica Caroline Brantley,Elizabeth Cover Teviotdale,Stephen Perkinson
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1501518127

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Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture in Medieval England by Jessica Caroline Brantley,Elizabeth Cover Teviotdale,Stephen Perkinson Pdf

This volume offers fresh approaches to both the material and the subject matter of late medieval English alabaster sculptures, bringing them into dialogue with twenty-first-century scholarship on pre-modern visual culture. Devotional alabaster images, too often thought of as "folk art" and narrowly English, were avidly collected and appreciated throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages, and this collection of essays seeks to help integrate them into the current discourse on materiality, the role of seriality in the changing modes of artistic production of the late Middle Ages, and the broad debate about whether it is useful to draw distinctions between elite/high and folk/low culture.

Author : Jennifer O'Reilly
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015254157

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Studies in the Iconography of the Virtues and Vices in the Middle Ages by Jennifer O'Reilly Pdf

Author : John B. Friedman,Jessica M. Wegmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000525106

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Medieval Iconography by John B. Friedman,Jessica M. Wegmann Pdf

First published in 1998, the present volume aims to help the researcher locate visual motifs, whether in medieval art or in literature, and to understand how they function in yet other medieval literary or artistic works.