英文摘要 |
In the history of Christianity, the Annunciation was formed to be a pre-experienced concept and an abundantly inspiriting belief according to Christian theological thoughts. St. Thomas of Aquinas argued, in his "Summa Theologica" that the spirit is hidden behind the metaphor of things. This article examines how a humble and sincere Catholic Dominican friar artist presented bountiful metaphor in salvation of spiritual and symbolic Annunciation by pictures. The interplay among visual/ non-text Annunciation, Bible glossary and cross-cultural issues is also researched. This paper aims at studying the symbol and memory of the incarnation embedded in the pictures of Fra Angelico's Annunciation, a Christian artist in the ear1y Renaissance, in the following areas: 1. the visible/ invisible symbol and memory of incamation; 2. the association with the incamation and the salvation of human being; 3. the symbolic meanings of incamation in the space-time presage. This article adopts the four-fold method of biblical interpretation, which consists of "Historia", "Allegoria", "Tropologia" and "Anagogia", developed since the Middle Ages, to explain and understand the hidden meanings of Fra Angelico's Annunciation. This research scrutinizes the artist's revelation of the theological and aesthesis meanings in the Christian salvation far beyond history, space-time and iconography. It also studies the invisible mystic power used to present the non-resemblance by visible images. |