Document Type : Original Article
Author
islamic school of art
Abstract
Iconography as a holy art has depicted spirituality and divine dimension of sacred
characters. The nature of iconography is defined by its transcendental or assimilating structure.
As the historical trajectory of western art shows, a new form of depicting holy characters
emerged based on assimilative approach which undermined their sanctity this paper is to
study comparatively the icon of Saint Mary from transcendental and assimilative approaches
in Christian and Islamic art. The selection of Saint Mary icon as the case study is because
of its importance and abundance in Christian art and the limitation of Persian painting on
depiction of other holy maidens. The sample of research has been selected purposively and
the analysis method of artistic works is descriptive and semiotic. The research results show
that the change of artist ontology led to adoption of each one of approaches aforementioned
and changed the nature of iconography as a religious art.
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