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Art/Literary - History / Medieval iconography | | Spanish term or phrase: tipo compositivo | This describes an iconographic miniature depicting the self-coronation of Peter IV of Aragon in the C14th. It's some kind of image, but the references I've found online are confusing.
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Este /tipo compositivo/, que eliminaba todo lo que enturbiaba la imagen de la máxima soberanía, no volvió a manifestarse de nuevo, aunque es posible encontrar algunas escenas más tardías con significado similar, aunque aumentado al vincularse el rey directamente con lo divino.
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|  David RonderKudoZ activityQuestions: 15 (none open) ( 1 closed without grading) Answers: 280
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| | type of composition | Explanation:
I may shortly have egg on my face if someone demonstrates otherwise, but I honestly think this is all it means: "tipo compositivo" as "tipo de composición". "Compositional type", if you like, but I wouldn't put that.
"In Medieval examples the Madonna is often accompanied by angels who support the throne, or by rows of saints. In Renaissance painting, particularly High Renaissance painting, the saints may be grouped informally in a type of composition known as a Sacra conversazione."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(art)
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Note added at 15 mins (2011-11-17 22:42:24 GMT)
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I know what you mean, David; you'd think there must be more to it than that. As you say, let's see if someone knows better.
Here's another example where I think it pretty clearly means "type of composition":
"Un grabado en madera de un maestro lombardo anónimo de finales del siglo xv reproduce este mismo tipo de iconografía (Fig. 4) [...] E. Panofsky llamaba a este arquetipo «fórmula milanesa». Este tipo compositivo ejerció un enorme influjo en la pintura aquende
y allende los Alpes y se utilizaba no sólo en las composiciones en que Jesús es representado solo, sino incluso en otras, donde «se convirtió en el núcleo de un nuevo tipo de imágenes compuestas de tres figuras, donde Cristo está representado de medio cuerpo entre Pilatos y un soldado»"
http://archivoespañoldearte.revistas.csic.es/index.php/aea/a...
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Charles Davis
Local time: 04:29
| Grading comment That's settled, then. It did look a lot more obvious in the light of day after a night's sleep. Many thanks, Charles.
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7 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +5 type of composition
Explanation:
I may shortly have egg on my face if someone demonstrates otherwise, but I honestly think this is all it means: "tipo compositivo" as "tipo de composición". "Compositional type", if you like, but I wouldn't put that.
"In Medieval examples the Madonna is often accompanied by angels who support the throne, or by rows of saints. In Renaissance painting, particularly High Renaissance painting, the saints may be grouped informally in a type of composition known as a Sacra conversazione."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(art)
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Note added at 15 mins (2011-11-17 22:42:24 GMT)
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I know what you mean, David; you'd think there must be more to it than that. As you say, let's see if someone knows better.
Here's another example where I think it pretty clearly means "type of composition":
"Un grabado en madera de un maestro lombardo anónimo de finales del siglo xv reproduce este mismo tipo de iconografía (Fig. 4) [...] E. Panofsky llamaba a este arquetipo «fórmula milanesa». Este tipo compositivo ejerció un enorme influjo en la pintura aquende
y allende los Alpes y se utilizaba no sólo en las composiciones en que Jesús es representado solo, sino incluso en otras, donde «se convirtió en el núcleo de un nuevo tipo de imágenes compuestas de tres figuras, donde Cristo está representado de medio cuerpo entre Pilatos y un soldado»"
http://archivoespañoldearte.revistas.csic.es/index.php/aea/a...
| Charles Davis
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| | Grading comment | That's settled, then. It did look a lot more obvious in the light of day after a night's sleep. Many thanks, Charles. |
| Notes to answerer
Asker: Well that's what I've got in my working draft, Charles, but I have a nagging doubt that it means something more technical. Let's see what others come up with, if anything.
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