Complete the account of attributes.
An object shown with a figure in order to identify them is an ______. Most refer to the manner of a saint's ______ or an episode of their life. Personified abstractions were codified by ______ in his Iconologia. Panofsky's claim that everyday objects in Netherlandish painting carry doctrinal meaning is called ______ symbolism.
Word bank: attribute · death · Ripa · disguised · emblem · birth
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An object shown with a figure in order to identify them is an attribute. Most refer to the manner of a saint's death or an episode of their life. Personified abstractions were codified by Ripa in his Iconologia. Panofsky's claim that everyday objects in Netherlandish painting carry doctrinal meaning is called disguised symbolism.
The last blank names the method's most contested extension. Some Netherlandish objects clearly do carry doctrinal meaning and some are furniture, and the criterion for telling them apart has never been settled, which is why the debate is still live.
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