Published 2013-12-01
“…The major directions of our approach concern three aspects: the identification of research sites that might bring into play the intersection between texts, folklore creations and iconographic representations; analysing the relation between the image and the look it is reflected in, according to the socio-cultural context we take into consideration (that of the emergence of the image and today’s one respectively), with a special focus on the faces of Death that are inserted, over the 18th–19th centuries, in the iconography of the worship monuments in
Muntenia; sketching a possible research site in danger because of the absence of an exhaustive corpus of images: the relation between the iconographic sequence and the caption that goes with it.…”
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