Naslov
Divine Spark or Pistis Sophia

Autori
Zec, Daniel

Izvornik
Ikon (Rijeka) (1846-8551) 8 (2015); 275-284

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Symbolism ; Pistis Sophia ; lion ; esotery ; Gnosticism ; Josip Leović ; Rudolf Povischil

Sažetak
The subject of this study is the iconographic analysis of the painting titled The Divine Spark (Pistis Sophia), an example of Symbolist painting from the early 20th century. The author of the painting is Josip Leović (1885- 1963), a Croatian artist from Osijek, and the painting was made for his maecenas, the rich Osijek industrialist Rudolf Povischil. The iconographic analysis takes into account various, mostly esoteric connotations of the iconographic motifs in the painting, that carry a universal, mutually nourishing esoteric symbolism of celebrating the metaphysical myth of enlightenment. Eventually, the Gnostic manuscript Pistis Sophia is detected as the original literary model for the painting, followed by an analysis of the correlation between the text and the image.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest umjetnosti

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