عنوان

Elucidating Opposites

شماره

LA125483

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Elucidating Opposites

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Dawn Cunningham

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

A religious diptych provided medieval people with opportunities to access the transcendental and to engage in meditation on spiritual routes to salvation. The binary format of the diptych lent itself to pairings of images that could include oppositions or iconographic contradictions. By manipulating these pairings, artists and patrons could enhance the complexity of the theological messages as well as of the relationship between art and user. Like many Gothic diptychs from Italy, an early-fourteenth-century example by Giotto is comprised of a Crucifixion and a vision of Mary's heavenly court. The celestial group around the Virgin and child includes seven prominent personifications of the virtues. By properly identifying these moral qualities through comparisons with Giotto's other works and by examining the oppositions they possibly addressed, we can elucidate some of the spiritual concerns of the original patron(s) who paid for and engaged with this diptych. A religious diptych provided medieval people with opportunities to access the transcendental and to engage in meditation on spiritual routes to salvation. The binary format of the diptych lent itself to pairings of images that could include oppositions or iconographic contradictions. By manipulating these pairings, artists and patrons could enhance the complexity of the theological messages as well as of the relationship between art and user. Like many Gothic diptychs from Italy, an early-fourteenth-century example by Giotto is comprised of a Crucifixion and a vision of Mary's heavenly court. The celestial group around the Virgin and child includes seven prominent personifications of the virtues. By properly identifying these moral qualities through comparisons with Giotto's other works and by examining the oppositions they possibly addressed, we can elucidate some of the spiritual concerns of the original patron(s) who paid for and engaged with this diptych.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

309-334

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

21/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

crucifixion

اصطلاح موضوعی

Diptych

اصطلاح موضوعی

Giotto

اصطلاح موضوعی

Mary

اصطلاح موضوعی

opposites

اصطلاح موضوعی

personification

اصطلاح موضوعی

vices

اصطلاح موضوعی

virtues

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Dawn Cunningham

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685292-02103001

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y