1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research on the narrative of praboles in the stained-glasses of Chartres Cathedral.
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07610055
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Fine art history
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
KIMATA Motokazu Nagoya University, School of Letters, Assistant professor, 文学部, 助教授 (00195348)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1996
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| Keywords | stained glass / Chartres Cathedral / Christian art / Gothic style / parabole / rhetoric / narrative / image |
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| Research Abstract |
1. As to the making of graphic materials of reserch, I have finished the magnifaication and the classification of important details in our slides taken before.
2. I studies mainly the window of the parabole of Prodigal Son at Chartres Cathedral, and published a part of its results. I have made a report on the points that couldn't be treated in this publication. I developped considerations in these matters from the viewpoints that are : (1) historical survey on the posiition of parabloes in the religious practice of the Christianity, particularly in the Western Middle Ages, and on the functions accomplished by the visual images representing paraboles ; (2) consideration on a sort of visual rethoric, exploited in visual representations of paraboles and refined during the second half of the 12th century in the fiield of typologcal images that connects matters of the Ancient and New Testaments ; (3) clarification of the fact that this window seeks to realize visually a effective communication of theological messages included in the parabole through oppositions and analogies between the elements composing the story, and this fact requires to revise the view of Wolfgang Kemp, who proposed to see in this window a work attaching importance to the continuity of narrative development of the story ; (4) consideration on the visual rhetoric that explited the possiblities presented by articulation system and geometrical composition in this window, which are characteristic of this visual medium, the stained glass of the biginning of the 13th century.
3. I have not developped sufficiently the study on the window of the Good Samaritan, that will be the object of coming research.
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