Originally, he may have been pouring a libation from a patera, as is common in similar sacrifice scenes belonging to this iconographic topos. |
We'll have the hits, maybe some hits-to-come, maybe some ruminations on the fame he loathes escalating into iconographic infinity. |
The nostalgia evinced in such iconographic readings is also, Shaw argues, built into the very form of the image. |
Several series of larger drawings from the 1980s seem to derive formal logic from the small ones that precede them, grouped by his signature iconographic devices. |
A recurrent iconographic image is Christ depicted as the Man of Sorrows, the Christ of the Passion, and there are several fine examples here. |
Some iconographic citoles have tailpieces, while on others the strings attach directly in the trefoil area. |