Signs, symbols and allegories in painting
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Signs, symbols and allegories in painting
29.99 €
Violet and pomegranate fruit, unicorn and dog, bull and lion, parrot and peacock, scales and pearls, cornucopia and mirror, the sign "Mirror of Venus" and the Christian sign "ichthys"... How often we see these and other signs and symbols in the paintings of famous masters and do not even think that these images have an additional meaning, different from their own, superficial. These signs, which give the works depth, mystery and multilayeredness, exist not only in the realm of the mind, but also in the realm of the senses. Symbols are manifold - they are denoted by numbers, objects and phenomena, shapes and images of animals, birds or insects, and so on. Symbols are especially vivid in painting and sculpture.
We are separated from the creators of these now famous works of fine art by hundreds of years, and sometimes by whole millennia. These people existed in a different system of life coordinates and believed in other gods. The monuments preserved from those ancient times were intended not only to please the eye and surprise with the subtlety of execution, but also often carried a certain idea, which contemporaries read without much difficulty. We, however, receiving at acquaintance with these monuments purely aesthetic pleasure, often overlook their semantic meaning, not paying attention to the speaking details or not understanding what they may imply, and thus we deprive ourselves of a full perception of works of art. The meanings of signs and symbols are almost impossible to accidentally "decipher", you need to know them. The new book by Natalia Kortunova, a well-known art historian, senior researcher at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, and curator of a number of exhibitions at the State Museum of Fine Arts, will help you do just that.
Signs, symbols and allegories in painting literally surround us. And often it is enough just to pay attention to them, to understand what secret meaning they carry, for a work of art to shine with new colors!
We are separated from the creators of these now famous works of fine art by hundreds of years, and sometimes by whole millennia. These people existed in a different system of life coordinates and believed in other gods. The monuments preserved from those ancient times were intended not only to please the eye and surprise with the subtlety of execution, but also often carried a certain idea, which contemporaries read without much difficulty. We, however, receiving at acquaintance with these monuments purely aesthetic pleasure, often overlook their semantic meaning, not paying attention to the speaking details or not understanding what they may imply, and thus we deprive ourselves of a full perception of works of art. The meanings of signs and symbols are almost impossible to accidentally "decipher", you need to know them. The new book by Natalia Kortunova, a well-known art historian, senior researcher at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, and curator of a number of exhibitions at the State Museum of Fine Arts, will help you do just that.
Signs, symbols and allegories in painting literally surround us. And often it is enough just to pay attention to them, to understand what secret meaning they carry, for a work of art to shine with new colors!
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- All books by the publisher
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- All books in the series Art. Gift Encyclopedia