False symbolism

Japanese: 偽装象徴主義 - ぎそうしょうちょうしゅぎ
False symbolism

…The paintings of this period were mainly religious (and also portraits), but even if the scene of the Annunciation was set in the interior of a Flemish citizen of the time, the objects in the room usually had symbolic meanings, such as a towel and a pitcher of water representing Mary's virginity. This disguised symbolism, which reconciled medieval symbolic thinking with a new interest in reality, was continued in 17th-century Dutch genre and still-life painting. The greatest master of early Flemish painting and the founder of its glorious tradition was Jan van Eyck, who served at the court of the Duke of Burgundy in Bruges. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "pseudo symbolism" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この時代の絵画は宗教画が主体(ほかには肖像画)であるが,そこでたとえば〈聖告(受胎告知)〉の場面が当時のフランドル市民の室内に置かれているとしても,室内の事物は,たとえばタオルと水差しがマリアの純潔を表すというように,たいてい象徴的意味を宿している。中世の象徴的思考法と現実への新たな関心とを融和させたこの〈偽装象徴主義disguised symbolism〉は,17世紀オランダの風俗画や静物画にも継承されてゆく。 初期フランドル絵画の最大の巨匠でその輝かしい伝統の祖となったのは,ブリュージュのブルゴーニュ公宮廷に仕えたヤン・ファン・アイクである。…

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