On the Signification of Doors and Gates in the Visual Arts
1981; The MIT Press; Volume: 14; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1574272
ISSN1530-9282
Autores Tópico(s)Urban Development and Cultural Heritage
Resumodesheim, for the Church of St. Michael, in the beginning of the eleventh century [2, plate 22]; and the main doorway in the Cluniac Abbey of V6zelay, with its tympanum and frieze exceeding in height that of the entrance itself [2, plate 32]. I wish also to call attention to Auguste Rodin's drawing for his 'Gates of Hell' (1886) and Marc Chagall's 'Cemetery Gate' (1917) (Fig. 2). The following discussion, by necessity limited in its scope, is divided into major types of signification these and other doors and gates have: functional, sexual, social, religious and political.
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