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IKON 2 - Animal Symbolism in Art

The second volume of IKON – journal for Iconographic Studies approaches the theme of animal symbolism. Most of the articles were presented at the Second International Conference of Iconographic Studies in Rijeka in May 2008. This issue’s subject has attracted much interest just as the animals have been present in the literature and arts from the very early history thus acquiring an important place within the corpus of iconography. Presented works cover the subjects of animal symbolism in literature, art and theological writings from the first centuries of Christianity until today. The articles deal with different themes concerning animal symbolism in order to discuss to what extent did the visual art follow textual model, in what degree did the illustrated word convey symbolic meaning and how did the image comprehend and conform to the particular learning and disputes throughout the history. The themes discussed are: animals as vehicles for religious allegory and moral instruction, animals in art and thought through the history, animals and symbolic associations, animals in the Old and New Testament, animals in the texts of the Early Christian writers, Bestiaries – varieties of texts, source for the visual interpretation in different media, Renaissance and Baroque emblems as moral and didactic images and symbolism of animals in contemporary art and literature.

iconography; symbolism of animals

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