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- Title
IMÁGENES SOBRE EL ALTAR: ICONOGRAFÍA Y SIMBOLISMO EN LAS CLAVES DE BÓVEDA DE LA DIÓCESIS DE TARRAGONA (1150-1350).
- Authors
GRANERO VILLA, XÈNIA
- Abstract
Generally speaking, the emergence of the Gothic period contributed to put an end to the tradition of decorating the interior of churches with extensive polychrome cycles on the walls, roofs, and apses. The opening of large windows and the introduction of ribbed vaults, despite reducing the surface areas capable of housing paintings of considerable dimensions, offered new spaces suitable for displaying ornamentation: the keystones. These pieces, in addition to performing a tectonic function, became a receptive support for sculpted, painted and applied decoration that made possible the realisation of iconographic programs of all kinds. They were therefore elements of Gothic architecture that were given a symbolic significance, not infrequently of great importance. However, in the light of new research into topography, passageways, semiotics of images, etc., we can conclude that these pieces also had a symbolic value in relation to the place they occupied and the audiences they served.
- Subjects
TARRAGONA (Spain); HOUSE painting; SURFACE area; SEMIOTICS; TOPOGRAPHY; LORD'S Supper; GOTHIC fiction (Literary genre); GOTHIC architecture
- Publication
Codex Aquilarensis, 2022, Issue 38, p169
- ISSN
0214-896X
- Publication type
Article