Le vol scénique dans le drame liturgique: Témoins écrits et plastiques

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the different mechanisms of the medieval stage technique to represent the flight in dramatic fiction. We particularly look at the possibilities offered by the iconographic study, in the line of Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky, who put emphasis on the confrontation between visual and literary sources, comparisons that can also be applied to the painting-theatre-feast by Pierre Francastel and the constructive arts by Ludovico Zorzi. Our analysis intends to individualise, in the pictoric document, the signs of everything that can help to visualize the world of performance.