CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Hlača, Tea |
|---|---|
| Title | The Living Cross Image in Lindar: Contexts of Style, Iconography, and History |
| Summary | The year 1409 inscribed on one of the scrolls depicted within the Living Cross wall painting in the Chapel of St. Catherine in Lindar places it at the very beginning of the history of this peculiar late medieval allegory. This thesis is a comprehensive case study of the Lindar image within the medieval tradition of Istrian countryside wall painting as well as reassessment of its position in the light of the new chronological, geographical and iconographic framing of the origins and formative stages of the early Living Cross imagery. The main focus of this thesis will be a comparative iconographic analysis of the image in Lindar with the two Living Cross representations in Germany, wall painting in Bologna and the fairly recently discovered wall paintings in Koprzywnica, Poniky, and Žehra. Taking into account the lack of certain textual or visual sources that would unequivocally determine the location and iconographical source of the Living Cross imagery, the major contribution of this thesis will be the reevaluation of the Lindar image as a single known occurrence on the borderline territory between the North Italian and Central European artistic, cultural and political spheres. |
| Supervisor | Jaritz, Gerhard; Zsolt Szakács, Bela; Vicelja Matijašić, Marina |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/hlaca_tea.pdf |
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