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Percorrendo il Bestiario. La rappresentazione del mondo animale nei pavimenti musivi del Medioevo veneziano

2019

medieval art; medieval bestiary; medieval venice; floor mosaic[SHS.ARCHEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistorymedieval artSettore L-ART/01 - Storia dell'Arte Medievalemedieval bestiarymedieval venicefloor mosaic
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Dal kētos al sēnmurv? Mutazioni iconografiche e transizioni simboliche del kētos dall’Antichità al Medioevo (secolo XIII)

2016

Using literary and iconographic sources the paper discusses the image of kētos from Antiquity to Middle Ages. The kētos, according with Greek literature, was used in the myths of both Perseus and Andromeda and Heracles and Hesione. The archaic images of the sea-monster are identifiable on Corinthian vases, on which we have only heads of leonine form. From 5th century the classical type of kētos is distinguished from all other Greek sea-monsters by a long neck, fins (also like wings), long muzzle and corrugated upper surface (like a crocodile), and leonine forelegs. Separated from histories of Andromeda and Hesione, the kētos is represented as a mount of marine gods and, especially, Nereides…

HistoryVisual Arts and Performing Artsmedia_common.quotation_subjectsenmurv[SHS]Humanities and Social SciencesJonahketos[ SHS ] Humanities and Social SciencescetusMiddle AgesArtictectureGreek literatureMedieval bestiaryComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSmedia_commonHistoire de l'artcetus kētos Jonah Medieval bestiary sēnmurv simorgh whaleArtMythology[SHS.ART]Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art historywhale[ SHS.ART ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art historysimorghcetus ketos Jonah Medieval bestiary senmurv simorgh whaleSettore L-ART/01 - Storia dell'Arte Medievale[SHS.ART] Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history[SHS] Humanities and Social SciencesCartographyHumanities
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