CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Bokody, Peter |
|---|---|
| Title | Pictorial and Iconographic Reflexivity: Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1278-1348) |
| Summary | The dissertation, Pictorial and Iconographic Reflexivity: Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1278-1348), deals with the emergence of images-within-images in Italian Painting around the end of the thirteenth century. This period marked a new beginning in the history of visual representation in Western art: the picture was no longer conceived of as a two-dimensional surface, but as a three-dimensional pictorial space depicting a world parallel to our own. This shift led to a “realistic” turn of the picture itself. One concomitant of this development was that images-within-images appeared in large number, usually as part of a building situated in the background or an object belonging to the setting. My main question is how these embedded images contributed to the reality-effect of the pictures (by showing them more life-like and detailed). I also investigate how these embedded images facilitated a pictorial reflection on the visual organization of the picture itself, at the same time creating meaning-related associations within the works and thus contributing to their message. This merger of pictorial and iconographic analyses is triggered by the source material, and aims to overcome the artificial methodological separation of the visual and semantic aspects of these works. Furthermore, by investigating the aspirations of the patrons and pictorial developments in the artists’ workshops I aim to situate the results in their broader historical context. |
| Supervisor | Klaniczay, Gábor |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/bokody_peter.pdf |
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