Abstract

JUAREZ NAJERA, Margarita  and  CASTELLANOS, Mariana. Elucidating the Visual Language of the Venus Table in the Dresden Codex: A Visual Semiotics Approach. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2020, vol.56, pp.95-126.  Epub Dec 09, 2020. ISSN 0185-2574.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.2020.56.2.0004.

The visual language of the paintings has undergone a theoretical and pragmatic process, which is different than that of textual linguistics. In this paper we propose a method of analysis based on semiotics to elucidate and compare the visual response of six paintings of the pre-Columbian Maya Dresden Codex. The Venus table was chosen because it presents a calendrical-astronomical message through a visual language that makes its interpretation complex. We consider that the visual semiotics of the Quebec School represented by Saint-Martin and Shannon´s entropic comparison of the Venus table paintings may be applied to both classical and contemporary pictorial works to support the work of art historians.

Keywords : Dresden Codex; Saint-Martin´s visual language; Shannon entropy; semiotics of paintings; calendrical-astronomical meaning.

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