Resumen de Multiple impressions: Christ in the winepress and the semiotics of the printed image
This essay focuses on the late fifteenth-century Christ in the Winepress woodcut now in the collection of Frankfurt Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, arguing that this print constructs its meaning through a chain of multiple impressions -visual, physical, spiritual, and affective. In discussing mimetic possibilities offered by the practices of image-, meaning-, and memory-making specific to the medium of the woodcut, the essay suggests that the Christ in the Winepress print is a meta-image that comments on itself: on its content; on its mode of production; and on its reception. Finally, in drawing attention to the semiotic structures of such a print, the essay explores somatosensory implications of these multiple imperssions, which result in the embodied processes of seeing.
