Elucidating Opposites

A religious diptych provided medieval people with opportunities to access the transcendental and to engage in meditation on spiritual routes to salvation. The binary format of the diptych lent itself to pairings of images that could include oppositions or iconographic contradictions. By manipulating...

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Published in:Religion and the arts
Main Author: Cunningham, Dawn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Religion and the arts
Year: 2017, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 309-334
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Giotto, di Bondone 1266-1337 / Diptych / Virtue / Vice
RelBib Classification:CE Christian art
Further subjects:B Diptych Giotto virtues vices opposites crucifixion Mary personification
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)