Creation of the world in the iconography of the Middle Ages. West
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Many people still perceive images of medieval masters as the creations of artists - in the usual sense of the word. Meanwhile, the Middle Ages are not known to the concepts of “creativity”, “loyalty to nature” or “observation”, which are characteristic of Renaissance and the new time. The art critic Anna Pozhidaeva seeks to identify the logic of the work of Western European masters of the XI - XIII centuries, primarily miniaturists. What was the measure of their freedom? By what criteria did they choose samples for their own iconographic schemes? How did the work of the predecessors reproduce and what did they mean by a “copy”? Asking such questions, the author focuses on the Western European iconography of the days of creation, in which several very different visual traditions of early Christianity were mixed. The analysis of numerous miniatures allows the researcher to develop the concept of a “mixed puzzle” - an iconographic complex, composed of several generations of medieval masters. Anna Pozhidaeva is a candidate of art history, associate professor of the faculty of humanities “Higher School of Economics”
Author:
Author:Anna Udaeva
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:Culture
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Series:
Series: Essays on Visuality
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-1551-9
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