Christian subjects and symbolic images of scientific discoveries in a realistic picture: the relationship between science and art

The article deals with the influence of scientific discoveries on the artistic practices of fine arts. We propose a hypothesis about the influence of a new view on the realistic picture by society and artists, as on a visual narrative and narrative practice with a system of semiotic signs and symbols of new realities of natural scientific knowledge of the late Late Middle Ages, the beginning of the New Age in Europe. In this paradigm of scientific discoveries, new proposals for the symbolism of traditional Christian subjects were formed. Was this new symbolic system in the works we are discussing uniquely readable to contemporaries? Probably yes. For those of them who were the customer of easel and monumental paintings, all signs and symbols indicating scientific discoveries were understandable and acceptable in translating into the language of symbols of traditional Christian plots of paintings. We offer a brief overview of the field of poetics of creating a picture from the point of view of realistic exhaustion and reflection.

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