14-03-2021, 09:41 AM
Some people think that to understand the imagery of the VM you first have to understand the text. I think the opposite. If there is any possibility of knowing what the VM is, it is by interpreting the iconography because both things must be related.
It is of course easier to get to understand the images before the text. What is strange is that since Panofsky there haven not been experts in the history of medieval art or in iconography who have not dared to speak about its meaning.
It is of course easier to get to understand the images before the text. What is strange is that since Panofsky there haven not been experts in the history of medieval art or in iconography who have not dared to speak about its meaning.