The Byzantine Legacy in the Manuscripts Les Miracles de Nostre Dame by Gautier De Coinci
Fuensanta Murcia Nicolás
This article is an attempt to analyze the Byzantine legacy in text and miniatures one of most important collections miracles 13th century, Les Miracles de Nostre Dame by Gautier Coinci. It isn’t intended be agreement with medieval images, but ideas that are deduced from his argument visually interpreted, soon after, a context highlighting scholastic theories, which systematized inherited ideology Second Council Nicaea. Thus, manuscripts written before 1300, we found use various iconographic resources, aim express link between prototype its image. Of all copies, manuscript kept Besançon (MS 551) shows more forcefully these changes occurred throughout century; illustrators likely used double representations excessive realism, such as size attitudes appear animated object, become surrogate Virgin herself.
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