The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography (Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions) edited by Colum Hourihane
English | December 15, 2016 | ISBN: 1472459474, 0367334321 | True EPUB | 548 pages | 12.7 MB
Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians - including Mâle, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro - have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject matter of a work of medieval art can tell. Over the last thirty or so years, scholarship has seen the meaning and methodologies of the term considerably broadened.