Uma análise imagética do inferno das Visões do Cavaleiro Túndalo (Getty, MS. 30)

Abstract

Visions of Hell were common themes in the Late Middle Ages, attested by the plurality of its textual and pictorial representations. Within this context, we seek to analyze the first visual representation of hell contained in the Vision of Túndalo, Les Visions du chevalier Tondal (Getty, ms.30), intending to trace the references used by its illuminator, Simon Marmion, for its elaboration. To do so, we will start from a Panofskyan analysis of images, emphasizing the general context of the duchy of Burgundy during the 15th century, the actors involved in the process of producing the codex, and finally, we will dwell on the infernal ideas that circulated in this delimited time frame. This approach is justified because it makes it possible to expand our understanding of the intersections of styles, ideas, people and objects in this present con text, especially with regard to the production of infernal images in manuscript codices.