A "Large Order of the Whole": Intertextuality and Interpictoriality in the "Hours of Isabella Stuart"

• Autores: Richard K. Emmerson
• Localización: Studies in iconography, ISSN 0148-1029, Nº. 28, 2007, págs. 51-110
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Four lengthy cycles of small miniatures in the Hours of Isabella Stuart (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England) represent an example of both intertextuality and interpictoriality. This stunning manuscript of 232 decorated folios includes extensive sequences of small images depicted within the outer decorated borders framing Latin texts. Representing visionary works that were very popular and widely illustrated in the later Middle Ages, these picture cycles are particularly challenging for the interpretation of the relationships between words and images. In recalling the well-known literary and biblical texts, the images exemplify the kind of intertextuality described by Wolfgang Kemp as operating in medieval stained-glass cycles, in which there is “movement back and forth in all directions between word and image. However, the cycles also function as independent narratives unified by specifically visual relationships, a systematic “interpictoriality” that creates pictorial narratives that are related to, but distinct from, their analogous poetic and biblical texts.