Abstract and quasi-abstract motifs were widely used in the religious images of the central Middle Ages. In many cases, these were certainly not simple ornamental devices but, on the contrary, they functioned as cognitively challenging semiotic devices affected by complex theological ideas. As this article will suggest, the miniatures discussed here — produced in the Byzantine, Insular, Carolingian, and Ottonian contexts — were created in accordance with apophatic spirituality, using nonfigurative representation to emphasise God’s ineffability. Thus, visual culture from the late seventh to the early eleventh century established an intricate transregional network in which iconic and symbolic contents were communicated rhizomatically. This phe...
The article takes up the problem of the medieval manuscript as an example of a total work of art. M...
This paper approches one of the most unknown aspects of religious images: their iconology. That is, ...
From a speech for the conference "L'estetica nel pensiero tardo-antico, medievale e umanistico" (Sal...
The hermeneutics of the Christian Middle Ages assign the religious image and its aesthetic function ...
This paper answers the question: Was there heretic images during the Middle Ages? On the one hand, i...
During the Middle Ages, images had to be tied to the truth. Otherwise, they were considered idols. A...
This article presents the relationship between the images that emerge from the visionary experience ...
This dissertation examines the practice of embedding devotional objects, such as relics and painted ...
Can a material object refer to the divine without attracting to itself devotion and veneration? And,...
If it is true that works of art belong to a context, it is also important to bear in mind that they ...
The miniatures in medieval manuscripts of the Bible are not always simply illustrations. They can be...
In recent years the idea of ‘performative vision’ has been at the heart of international medieval s...
„FIGURE” AND „FORM.” ON THE FUNCTION OF IMAGES IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE ON THE EXAMPLE OF 12TH-CENTURY CO...
<p>During the Middle Ages, images had to be tied to the truth. Otherwise, they were considered idols...
This work deals with the problem of intersemiotics in Orthodox Slavonic culture in the Middle Ages....
The article takes up the problem of the medieval manuscript as an example of a total work of art. M...
This paper approches one of the most unknown aspects of religious images: their iconology. That is, ...
From a speech for the conference "L'estetica nel pensiero tardo-antico, medievale e umanistico" (Sal...
The hermeneutics of the Christian Middle Ages assign the religious image and its aesthetic function ...
This paper answers the question: Was there heretic images during the Middle Ages? On the one hand, i...
During the Middle Ages, images had to be tied to the truth. Otherwise, they were considered idols. A...
This article presents the relationship between the images that emerge from the visionary experience ...
This dissertation examines the practice of embedding devotional objects, such as relics and painted ...
Can a material object refer to the divine without attracting to itself devotion and veneration? And,...
If it is true that works of art belong to a context, it is also important to bear in mind that they ...
The miniatures in medieval manuscripts of the Bible are not always simply illustrations. They can be...
In recent years the idea of ‘performative vision’ has been at the heart of international medieval s...
„FIGURE” AND „FORM.” ON THE FUNCTION OF IMAGES IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE ON THE EXAMPLE OF 12TH-CENTURY CO...
<p>During the Middle Ages, images had to be tied to the truth. Otherwise, they were considered idols...
This work deals with the problem of intersemiotics in Orthodox Slavonic culture in the Middle Ages....
The article takes up the problem of the medieval manuscript as an example of a total work of art. M...
This paper approches one of the most unknown aspects of religious images: their iconology. That is, ...
From a speech for the conference "L'estetica nel pensiero tardo-antico, medievale e umanistico" (Sal...