纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 067正信凯旋圣像（8）

 

What the viewer around 1400 might not have realised is that some of these saints and martyrs¹ were not even born in 843. The icon² of the Triumph of Orthodoxy shows a whole society revisiting its past through a work of art, begging God to secure its future. It is, I think, a powerful and poignant³ image. Here's the artist Bill Viola again:

"It is an extraordinary and innovative⁴ picture, which represents a really ingenious way of uniting the temporal world of the past, present, future, with the eternal and the divine. When I look at it, I feel it's almost a post-modern-like image - using the idea of the frame within the frame, there are icons⁵ within the icons, images within the image."

1400年的观众可能会忽略的是，图上的某些圣人或殉道者在八四三年尚未出生。正信凯旋圣像表现的是整个社会通过一件艺术作品回顾历史、祈求上帝佑护其未来的状况。这幅画像充满力量，动人心弦。艺术家比尔·维欧拉认为：

这是一幅非同寻常、极具创意的画，是别出心裁地将现世的过去、未来、当下与永恒及神圣相连接的方式。我认为它几乎可算是后现代风格，采用了框架层叠的概念。圣像中有圣像，图像中有图像。

 

1 martyrs   

n.martyr的复数形式；烈士( martyr的名词复数 )；殉道者；殉教者；乞怜者（向人诉苦以博取同情）

参考例句：

• the early Christian martyrs 早期基督教殉道者
• They paid their respects to the revolutionary martyrs. 他们向革命烈士致哀。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2 icon   

n.偶像，崇拜的对象，画像

参考例句：

• They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
• Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。

3 poignant   

adj.令人痛苦的，辛酸的，惨痛的

参考例句：

• His lyrics are as acerbic and poignant as they ever have been.他的歌词一如既往的犀利辛辣。
• It is especially poignant that he died on the day before his wedding.他在婚礼前一天去世了，这尤其令人悲恸。

4 innovative   

adj.革新的，新颖的，富有革新精神的

参考例句：

• Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
• He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。

5 icons   

n.偶像( icon的名词复数 )；（计算机屏幕上表示命令、程序的）符号，图像

参考例句：

• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons. 用图标来区分重要的文本项。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Daemonic icons should only be employed persistently if they provide continuous, useful status information. 只有会连续地提供有用状态信息的情况下，后台应用程序才应该一直使用图标。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓