Word and Image: Polish Medieval and Renaissance Religious Writings in the European Context

The article presents the Polish religious writing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance as an expression of correspondence between the word and image. It also demonstrates the impact of European graphics, including Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts, upon Polish religious works of the period (such as the works...

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Main Author: Kaczor-Scheitler, Katarzyna Agnieszka (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2021
In: Verbum vitae
Year: 2021, Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 1193-1215
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Dürer, Albrecht 1471-1528 / Book illumination / Woodcut / Renaissance / Krakauer Bibel / Poland
RelBib Classification:CE Christian art
FA Theology
KBK Europe (East)
TH Late Middle Ages
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Summary:The article presents the Polish religious writing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance as an expression of correspondence between the word and image. It also demonstrates the impact of European graphics, including Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts, upon Polish religious works of the period (such as the works by Pseudo-Bonaventura in his rendering of Baltazar Opec’s Żywot Pana Jezu Krysta and Jan Sandecki’s Historie biblijne or Rozmyślania dominikańskie. The article also emphasizes that it was Dürer who paved the way for the book illustration, thus turning woodcuts into an art form in their own right. The fifteenth century was a watershed in book culture. As new illustration techniques at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encouraged the growth of illustrated printed books, the codex became obsolete.
ISSN:2451-280X
Contains:Enthalten in: Verbum vitae
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.31743/vv.12484