Giotto’nun Ağıt Freskinin İkonografik ve Göstergebilimsel Okuması

Year 2014, Issue: 23, 109 - 133, 02.12.2014

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Abstract

An Iconographic and Semiological Reading of “Lamentation” by Giotto

Abstract

The narrative of the Lamentation over Dead Christ, recounted specifically
in the late medieval religious literature and not mentioned in canonical
Gospels, finds its most striking visual equivalent in Giotto’s frescoes in
the Arena Chapel (1304-6), as the precursor of a new mode of representation
in Western art. The artist’s concept of depicting the subject announces
a break from the preceding canon. Focusing on the innovation in the representation of the Lamentation, this study aims to present an iconographic
and semiological dual reading in the context of an analysis of the layers of
meaning in the scene.