Open AccessNarrative Metamorphosis Through Images: The Case of Opening Miniatures in the Estoire del
Author(s) -
Miha Zor
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
ars and humanitas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.184
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2350-4218
pISSN - 1854-9632
DOI - 10.4312/ah.9.2.17-39
Subject(s) - narrative , interpretation (philosophy) , metamorphosis , art , selection (genetic algorithm) , saint , order (exchange) , visual arts , literature , art history , computer science , artificial intelligence , linguistics , philosophy , botany , finance , larva , economics , biology
The article deals with pictorial metamorphosis in the opening pages of two early 14th-century manuscripts of the Estoire del saint Graal. Firstly, the episodes depicted are analysed iconographically and formally. Secondly, it explores how pictorial narrative is established in the multi-compartmentalised miniature, that is how the images are linked internally in order to convey a narrative that has its beginning and its ending. Thirdly, it is shown how the images in the opening miniature communicate with other miniatures in the manuscript and how the course of interpretation, signaled by the opening miniature, is succeeded and confirmed by the selection of episodes which are subsequently depicted, as well as by the way in which the episodes depicted are pictorially interpreted