Iconography: Imprint and Reflection of Epochs - Analysis of Some Image Types of the Early Christian Iconography Cover Image

Ikonográfia – korszakok lenyomata és tükre: Az ókeresztény ikonográfia néhány képtípusának elemzése
Iconography: Imprint and Reflection of Epochs - Analysis of Some Image Types of the Early Christian Iconography

Author(s): Edit Újvári
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Cultural history, Visual Arts, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Pécsi Tudományegyetem
Keywords: cultural history; iconography; art of antiquity; Early Christian art; symbol;

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the specifics of the iconographic research, also describing the history of this discipline. The visual representations – paintings, sculptures, carvings – have a very important role in every historical era, and they express ideological thoughts, contents and meanings. All these are interpreted by iconographic research, with defining and specifying of the topics and attributes of the image types and analysing of the compositions. The theoretical, historical and critical approaches are complemented by the analysis of some typical early Christian iconographic types, Greco-Roman mythological figures in Christian context and the Traditio legis (“the Giving of the Law”) image type.

  • Issue Year: 6/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 49-62
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Hungarian
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