Semiotic Dissonance of Medieval Architectural Sculpture. A Case Study on the Example of the Sculptural Ensemble of the Nave Corpus of the Collegiate Church in Sandomierz
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https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2025/27/12Keywords:
medieval sculpture, gothic art, bestiary, symbols, semiotic iconography, hermeneutics.Abstract
The paper presents a proposal for the use of Francis Julien's dé-coïncidence theory in the interpretation of the Gothic architectural sculpture images of the interior of the Collegiate Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sandomierz. The complex and multifaceted meaning of medieval symbolism that can be read through the figures of animals in architectural sculpture and the mutual relations created by the composition of these decorations create multifaceted possibilities for understanding these symbols through the semiotic dissonance created in their meanings. To investigate the phenomenon, selected animal figures from the set of decor-ations of the nave corpus were used.
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2025-12-17
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