The Theme of the Fountain-Wound in a Baroque Manuscript Meditation: The Impact of Iconography on Poetry Cover Image

Motyw fontanny-ran w barokowej rękopiśmiennej medytacji: wpływ ikonografii na poezję
The Theme of the Fountain-Wound in a Baroque Manuscript Meditation: The Impact of Iconography on Poetry

Author(s): Joanna Panasiuk
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Poetry, Social history, Modern Age, Theology and Religion, 17th Century, 18th Century, History of Religion
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: emblem; meditation; iconography;

Summary/Abstract: Behind the foundation of the monastic meditation about fountains is a concrete devotional graphic from Western Europe. It is the Dutch emblem that is the key to the interpretation of the religious text, which uses words to directly refer to a specific image. These cultural correspondences constitute a curious phenomenon. They present the spirituality as well as the mentality of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European society. This seems to confirm, at the same time, the fact that no artistic activity is ever isolated.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 189-198
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English