Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in the codification of images in order.
- The Golden Legend collects the saints' lives that supply them
- Panofsky proposes disguised symbolism in Netherlandish painting
- The Iconologia appears in an illustrated edition
- Ripa publishes the Iconologia
- Attributes develop as workshop convention across medieval Europe
Hints
- The conventions precede the handbooks that record them.
- The illustrated Ripa follows the first edition by a decade.
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- Attributes develop as workshop convention across medieval Europe
- The Golden Legend collects the saints' lives that supply them
- Ripa publishes the Iconologia
- The Iconologia appears in an illustrated edition
- Panofsky proposes disguised symbolism in Netherlandish painting
Why
The order matters because it shows the handbooks recording practice rather than creating it. Attributes were working conventions long before anyone wrote a dictionary of them, which is why Ripa is evidence about what painters were already doing.
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