Lost Architecture Remodeling: An Iconographic Reading
Adriana De Miranda
Abstract:In the Middle Ages, images had useful functions, particularly among illiterates. In holy places pictorial representations helped to instruct illiterates, making them understand the stories that were represented, recognize the Saints, and perceive the meaning of their attributes. The representation of a miniature model of a church associated with a saint often denotes that he had erected holy places as symbols of the ‘building up’ of the Church through the Doctrine and his own theological writings. A model of a… Show more
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