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APPUNTI DI SEMIOTICA DELL’IMMAGINE E UNA LETTURA DI CARAVAGGIO
THE SEMIOTICS OF THE IMAGE AND A READING OF CARAVAGGIO

Author(s): Luigi Tassoni
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Art Semiotics; Image like Referent; Production and Interpretation of Sense; Dynamics of painting space.

Summary/Abstract: The Semiotics of the Image and a Reading of Caravaggio. The interpretation of artistic Texts (visual language) throw the verbal language of Critics may be realized with Semiotics like correct methodological approach. Topic of this essay: 1. Proposals for overcoming theoretic contradictions; 2. Reference to functional analysis of paintings; 3. Analysis of one Caravaggio’s masterpiece.

  • Issue Year: 57/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 137-154
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Italian
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