REALISM AND SYMBOLISM OF ANIMAL PORTRAITS FROM THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES - ICONOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE OF ANIMALS

Authors
DITTRICH L DITTRICH S
Citation
L. Dittrich et S. Dittrich, REALISM AND SYMBOLISM OF ANIMAL PORTRAITS FROM THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES - ICONOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE OF ANIMALS, Naturwissenschaften, 81(9), 1994, pp. 383-391
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Naturwissenschaften → ACNP
ISSN journal
00281042
Volume
81
Issue
9
Year of publication
1994
Pages
383 - 391
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-1042(1994)81:9<383:RASOAP>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Wild-living animals in landscape paintings of the 16th and 17th centur y are usually symbols, not to be seen as biological/ecological element s. As clavis interpretandi they may often explain the symbolic meaning of the whole painting. The historical genesis of the symbolic meaning of tree squirrel, European hare, herons, pelicans, white stork, mute swan, ducks, crane, owls, parrots, sparrows, frogs and snakes are expl ained.