Entre a fonte e o objeto : o estatuto da imagem na história e na história da arte

Abstract

O artigo aborda a importância das artes visuais para os medievalistas e historiadores em geral. Faz análise do Mapa-múndi de Ebstorf, e da história que ele transmite da humanidade e sua salvação divina. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT

This research proposes to demonstrate how the historian has ulilized images as source, conversing with the history of art, whose theoretical basis and time concepts are constantly breaking the lineal structure. This study focused in the iconographic analysis of the main biblical images from Ebstorf’s world-map, striving to demonstrate that images developed within an iconographic program enjoy time that not always correlate to time in history. In Ebstorf, all times are mixed up, reporting to the time of the future (salvation), represented by the image of the resurrected Christ in the center