TY - JOUR
T1 - Transformations in wood
T2 - Between sculpture and painting in late medieval devotional objects
AU - Pinkus, Assaf
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Late-medieval wooden objects along the Lower Rhine are uniquely characterized in their transformative quality, transitioning from sculpture to painting and vice versa. Being neither painting nor sculpture, these objects are in a perpetual state of “becoming” or metamorphosis, from two-dimensional to three-dimensional representation. Earlier studies classified them as mixed-media objects, restricting their understanding to formalist and aesthetic aspects alone. Following the medieval differentiation between painting (imagine) as knowledge of the divine archetype, and sculpture (simulacrum) as the corporeal and material body, this article explores the interrelationship of the two media in these transformative objects as a transition from essentia to forma, from knowing to matter, and from idea to a real living body. The popular Schreinmadonna, Ursula Busts, and multimedia panel painting, all produced around Cologne, will serve as case studies for interrogating this so-called medieval paragone.
AB - Late-medieval wooden objects along the Lower Rhine are uniquely characterized in their transformative quality, transitioning from sculpture to painting and vice versa. Being neither painting nor sculpture, these objects are in a perpetual state of “becoming” or metamorphosis, from two-dimensional to three-dimensional representation. Earlier studies classified them as mixed-media objects, restricting their understanding to formalist and aesthetic aspects alone. Following the medieval differentiation between painting (imagine) as knowledge of the divine archetype, and sculpture (simulacrum) as the corporeal and material body, this article explores the interrelationship of the two media in these transformative objects as a transition from essentia to forma, from knowing to matter, and from idea to a real living body. The popular Schreinmadonna, Ursula Busts, and multimedia panel painting, all produced around Cologne, will serve as case studies for interrogating this so-called medieval paragone.
KW - Calcidius
KW - Hugh of St. Victor
KW - Isidore of seville
KW - Materiality
KW - Medieval paragone
KW - Painting
KW - Sculpture
KW - Transformative objects
KW - William of conches
KW - Wood carving
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058807209&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.116356
DO - 10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.116356
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AN - SCOPUS:85058807209
SN - 0083-5897
VL - 48
SP - 263
EP - 291
JO - Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies
JF - Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies
IS - 3
ER -