Kivised elupuud? Keskaegse visuaalkultuuri tõlgendusprobleeme
Stone-Carvings of the Tree of Life? Some Considerations on Interpreting Medieval Visual Culture
Author(s): Helen BomeSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Eesti Kunstiteadlaste Ühing
Keywords: Middle Ages; iconography; stone carving; methodology
Summary/Abstract: This article discusses three stone reliefs from sixteenth-century Tallinn. The reliefs were previously treated by four eminent Estonian art historians - Sten Karling, Armin Tuulse, Mai Lumiste and Helmi Üprus. Their modes of seeing and describing the reliefs, evaluations of artistic quality and hypotheses concerning the meaning of the motifs depicted are compared. Clearly these are very different and even contradictory, depending on the researchers' personal tastes and methodological tools, as well as the historically determined ideological background at the time of publication. Contemporary ways of approaching the artifacts in question and interpreting their iconography are proposed by the author.
Journal: Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi
- Issue Year: 17/2008
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 65-77
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Estonian
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