Open AccessRelief panels on a three-light window from Lesnovo. Proposing an interpretation of the semiotics of carved motifs
Author(s) -
Smiljka Gabelić
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
zograf
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2406-0755
pISSN - 0350-1361
DOI - 10.2298/zog1741157g
Subject(s) - semiotics , art , interpretation (philosophy) , meaning (existential) , window (computing) , iconography , facade , art history , visual arts , aesthetics , history , philosophy , archaeology , linguistics , computer science , epistemology , operating system
The paper explores the semiotic meaning of relief panels from a three-light window on the northern facade of the naos of the Church of Archangel Michael and St. Gavrilo of Lesnovo at the Lesnovo Monastery (1340/1341). Iconographically derived from tombstones and objects of everyday use, their geometrical and zoomorphic decoration seems to suggest that the ktetor and his family believed in the protective power of the symbols and signs carved on them.