The fictive curtains or vela, which frequently occupy the socle zone in programmes of Romanesque wall painting, are usually interpreted as purely «ornamental » or decorative. However, focusing on the crypt of the Basilica Patriarcale at Aquileia, near Venice, the author argues that certain conventions of ornament such as these fictive curtains do contribute meaning to the iconographie programme. The drawings on the fictive curtain depicting crusaders, pilgrims, Saint George slaying the dragon, and the combat of virtues and vices, evoke the general theme of the Psychomachia or battle of the soul, and thus, serve as a gloss on the images of the Passion of Christ and the martyrs above them. What is more, the specific genre of imagery depicted ...
International audienceInscriptions are numerous in the corpus of Catalan mural paintings, which thus...
National audienceOn the ground of a study on a capital and the central tympanum of the basilica in V...
Archeology and the assiduous work of the Centre d'Etude des Peintures murales Romaines (CEPMR) now m...
The study of iconography, an integral part of art history, must develop out of the image itself and ...
La peinture murale est envisagée en tant que support matériel de communication profondément attaché ...
The rich decorative « language » of medieval painted ornament has its principal source in the arts o...
Beyond efficacy. Representing the words of God and Christ on monumental Romanesque images. This stu...
From ornament to omamentality. The point of this article is to switch from a local and marginal issu...
An explanation is proposed for the Origin of a device used to create some of the first convincing in...
The mural paintings which have been realized in romanesque age in the chancel and in the crypt of No...
This Dissertation focuses on the iconography of the Crucifixion in the Carolingian mural painting be...
Cette thèse a pour objet les images narratives de la Passion du Christ dans les peintures murales ta...
The Representation of Worshippers in Church in French Painting There are many pictures of praying ...
In one of his earliest monographs, Studien zur beneventanischen Malerei (1968), Hans Belting concent...
This dissertation offers a wide-ranging examination of the half-length sacred figure over the door i...
International audienceInscriptions are numerous in the corpus of Catalan mural paintings, which thus...
National audienceOn the ground of a study on a capital and the central tympanum of the basilica in V...
Archeology and the assiduous work of the Centre d'Etude des Peintures murales Romaines (CEPMR) now m...
The study of iconography, an integral part of art history, must develop out of the image itself and ...
La peinture murale est envisagée en tant que support matériel de communication profondément attaché ...
The rich decorative « language » of medieval painted ornament has its principal source in the arts o...
Beyond efficacy. Representing the words of God and Christ on monumental Romanesque images. This stu...
From ornament to omamentality. The point of this article is to switch from a local and marginal issu...
An explanation is proposed for the Origin of a device used to create some of the first convincing in...
The mural paintings which have been realized in romanesque age in the chancel and in the crypt of No...
This Dissertation focuses on the iconography of the Crucifixion in the Carolingian mural painting be...
Cette thèse a pour objet les images narratives de la Passion du Christ dans les peintures murales ta...
The Representation of Worshippers in Church in French Painting There are many pictures of praying ...
In one of his earliest monographs, Studien zur beneventanischen Malerei (1968), Hans Belting concent...
This dissertation offers a wide-ranging examination of the half-length sacred figure over the door i...
International audienceInscriptions are numerous in the corpus of Catalan mural paintings, which thus...
National audienceOn the ground of a study on a capital and the central tympanum of the basilica in V...
Archeology and the assiduous work of the Centre d'Etude des Peintures murales Romaines (CEPMR) now m...