Iconography In Renaissance Art. From the 12th to the 15th and 16th centuries religious art developed from being solely for teaching purposes to being a participation in its subject matter. Agatha who holds her severed breasts on a platter.
Saints are most commonly identified by their attributes in Renaissance painting. The dissolution of systems around 1800 and finally the new develop-ments in the last hundred and fifty years. Art Library Reference N7830S3513 vol1-2 N 7830 S35 vol.
This allows continuity from painting to painting and artist to artist.
Spot the iconography. 1 We have to ask ourselves whether or not the symbolical significance of a given motif is a matter of established representational tradition. Whereas iconography is a sacred art informed by Orthodox theology and fulfils a liturgical function the art of the Renaissance was largely stripped of its liturgical function to exist mainly for decorative purposes artifice and titillation of the eye appealing to. The High Renaissance was prevalent during the sixteenth century in Europe Stokstad 2002.
