The Tree English: Symbol, Allegory, and Mnemonic Device in Medieval Art and Thought - Couverture souple

Worm, Andrea

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2503548393 ISBN 13 : 9782503548395

Editeur : Brepols N.V., 2014

Synopsis

With its vital character - growing, flowering, extending its roots into the ground, and its branches and leaves to the sky - the tree is a polyvalent metaphor, a suggestive symbol, and an allegorical subject. During the Middle Ages, a number of iconographic schemata were based on the image and structure of the tree, including the Tree of Jesse and the Tree of Virtues and Vices. From the late eleventh century onwards such formulae were increasingly used as devices for organizing knowledge and representing theoretical concepts. Despite the abstraction inherent in these schemata, however, the semantic qualities of trees persist in their usage. The analysis of different manifestations of trees in the Middle Ages is highly instructive for visual, intellectual, and cultural history. Essays in this volume concentrate on the formative period for arboreal imagery in the medieval West, that is, the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. Using a range of methodological strategies and examining material from different media, ranging from illuminated manuscripts to wall painting, stained glass windows, and monumental sculpture, the articles in this volume show how different arboreal structures were conceived, employed, and appropriated by their specific contexts, how they functioned in their original framework, and how they were perceived by their audience.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brepols N.V.
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 2503548393
• ISBN 13: 9782503548395
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 271
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