O VITRAL RELIGIOSO MEDIEVAL NA GÊNESE DAS HISTÓRIAS EM QUADRINHOS

Abstract

The article here presented was born as a by-product of post-doctoral research on religious stained glass in the Theology department at PUC-PR. Its objective is to trace parallels between the visual language present in the art of medieval religious stained glass and the dynamics of comic books. Technological and conceptual ancestor of the camera obscura, photography, cinema and RGB projection, stained glass may also be at the genesis of comic books as their dynamic principle. Since reading a visual image is not entirely intuitive, stained glass windows (as well as other forms of sacred and religious art that preceded them) possibly contributed to the training of medieval man's gaze, developing essential skills for the formation of generations of image readers. Our analysis will be based on texts about stained glass in the context of Gothic architecture and the verbal-visual rhetoric of comic books, as well as on the observation and comparison between images from the two discursive genres. In the end, we hope to present comics as true heirs to an important part of the Western imaginary.