"The Damned Trinity" as the hypermotif of Russian Iconography
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-3-62-78
Abstract
The article is focused on the popular motif of Christian iconography; the author offers to call it "the damned trinity". The motif appears in the iconography of the Last Judgment and represents three characters depicted in the center of the underworld: the Devil is seated on the Hell-beast and holds Judas on his knees. This paper discusses the variations of that visual model, the interpretations of one of its figures (Judas or the Antichrist), and its transformation into a hypermotive - a flexible iconographic scheme which begins to wander in different visual contexts including new characters so that each new composition retains a semantic connection with the original, "parental" motif.
About the Author
D. I. Antonov
Russian State University for the Humanities; The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitriy I. Antonov, Cand. of Sci. (History), associate professor
bld. 6, Miusskaya sq., Moscow, GSP-3, 125993; bldg. 1, bld. 82, Vernadskogo av., Moscow, 119571
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Antonov D.I. "The Damned Trinity" as the hypermotif of Russian Iconography. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;(3):62-78. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-3-62-78
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