Art History Department
Subject: Allegorical Narrative in Monumental Art in Italy and in North Europe 1250-1450.
Supervisor: Dr. Lola Kantor Kazovsky.
Abstract: My research focuses on the visual aspects of the allegorical flourishing in late medieval Europe and analyses its rhetorical role in relation to its context – the physical and intellectual environment in which it was created. I believe that allegorical images are not merely translating the allegorical texts, but uses the visual language in order to construct a layered narrative; and by doing so, demands from the artists different skills of encoding, and from the viewers different skills of decoding than the ones used for written allegories.